On a gravel plain in northern Western Sahara, with no shade for miles, there is a heap of stones 54.5 meters (179 feet) long.

In the early 5th century, a woman of high rank was buried beside an old Roman posting station on the Via Augusta, in what is ...

From the viewpoint at the chapel of San Marcos, it looks like the work of an army of stonemasons. Two lines of pale limestone ...

Almost nothing survives of what people wore in the Iron Age. Linen, wool and dyes are all organic matter, and in most soils they simply rot away. Archaeologists therefore tend to reconstruct the ...

In AD 52, Emperor Claudius staged a naval battle with condemned prisoners to celebrate a tunnel that 30,000 workers had dug through a mountain by hand. The tunnel only half worked, and Lake Fucino was ...

A dig beside the famous Greek temples of Agrigento, in Sicily, has uncovered a previously unknown neighborhood of the ancient city of Akragas, with walls that collapsed when Carthage besieged it in ...

A team excavating Augusta Raurica, a Roman colony near Basel in Switzerland, has unearthed a complete iron window grille 1.7 meters (5 ft 7 in) underground, with five bars and two nails still in place ...

About 13,800 years ago, Magdalenian hunters in northern Spain were still visiting the cave of Altamira, famous today for its painted bison. (The cave’s entrance would collapse around 13,000 years ago.

Around 400 BC, Europe was changing, though not in a single direction. Athens had just lost the Peloponnesian War (404 BC), and Roman tradition says the Gauls would sack Rome around 390 BC. Farther ...

Almost nothing survives of what people wore in the Iron Age. Linen, wool and dyes are all organic matter, and in most soils ...

Some 1,900 years ago, a man named Thrasymedes gave a thin sheet of gold to a god who was neither Greek nor Roman. The deity ...

They had crossed most of Persia, climbed snowbound mountains and fought tribes that hurled stones at them from the cliffs.