SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — Unprecedented wildfires ripping through South Korea’s southern regions have destroyed large parts of an ancient Buddhist temple, ruining two of its three state-designated ...
The mortar, pestle and cutting board in your kitchen are modern versions of manos and metates—ancient cooking implements ...
George Bird, a “local archaeology enthusiast,” had a theory about the Farley Moor standing stone. He suspected this decent-sized, slightly pointed, moss-covered rock in Farley Moor forest “might be ...
The ancient Roman settlement of Liternum was found in 194 B.C. and thrived for about 400 years before rapidly declining and ...
On the west bank of the Achelous are the remains of one of the oldest shipyards in antiquity, that of the ancient Greek city ...
Japan is famous for combining ancient traditions with futuristic cities, but it also has a surprising side. Scattered across the country are places that look like they belong somewhere else entirely: ...
A new study by Dr. Margherita Mussi, published in Quaternary International, highlights how naturally occurring basalt spheres ...
New research is shedding light on the bouleuterion building that once stood in the ancient city of Teos, located in ...
Paranthropus robustus fossils from Swartkrans Cave reveal new insights into their diet, social structure, and survival 2 ...
As well as sharing similarities with other Danish woodhenges, there is also a striking parity with a known woodhenge in ...
Inventions occasionally paint a very different picture of our ancient world. Ancient inventions can be groundbreaking. They give us more insight into past cultures, people, and technology.
The first genomic study of ancient people from the eastern Maghreb region — present-day Tunisia and northeastern Algeria — shows that Stone Age populations who lived there more than 8,000 ...