This ancient city in modern-day Bolivia is almost 13,000 feet above sea level. Only a small portion of the ruins have been ...

Ancient wooden tools found at a site in Gantangqing in southwestern China are approximately 300,000 years old, new dating has ...

An analysis of the provenance of the Matarrubilla stone, a large megalith at Valencina in Spain, indicates that the ...

The discovery of a Hellenistic period mansion remains in North Macedonia indicates ties with the Ancient Greek world.

Archaeologists have long thought that monumental architecture—large, human-built structures that emphasize visibility—were products of societies with power structures, including social hierarchy, ...

John Shaw-Rimmington started building dry stone walls after the stones themselves complained to him. It was the 1980s, and he ...

The church, however, is more ancient than it looks and dates back to the 12th century, in parts and has ancient origins. Both ...

In prehistoric communities across what is now northeastern Europe, decorative ornaments with animal teeth were a regular ...

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Not all henges contain a stone circle, and there is only one other in Cornwall – Stripple Stones on the slopes of Hawk’s Tor on Bodmin Moor.

On a small rise less than 20 miles south of Tbilisi, Georgia, a clutch of round, mud-brick houses rises from a green, fertile river valley. The mound is called Gadachrili Gora, and the Stone Age ...