A Greco-Roman tomb discovered beneath a hidden staircase in southern Egypt is shedding light on ancient burial customs and the layered history of the region. At the base of nine worn stone steps in ...

The "intriguing new" rock engraving was found on the west bank of the Nile River near Aswan in November 2022, during a survey ...

The extraordinary cave network of Ajanta in India houses a trove of masterpieces dating back thousands of years.

Ancient hunter-gatherers built monumental mounds at Kaillachuro in Peru without kings, rewriting history of "monumental ...

A new study has shown that as early as the Stone Age, people in Africa traveled long distances to procure colorful stone, the ...

A rock art panel near Aswan, Egypt, may depict a rare example of an elite individual from the First Dynasty, shedding light ...

Morning hymns blare through a temple loudspeaker in Karaikudi, Tamil Nadu, stirring the stillness that had settled over the night like a handspun Kandangi saree. I squint to see the time before ...

Missouri’s Bluff Dwellers Cave is like stepping into nature’s secret laboratory—a subterranean wonderland where water and stone have been collaborating on a masterpiece for millions of years. When ...

More Researchers and artists have created a striking facial reconstruction of a Stone Age woman who lived roughly 10,500 years ago in what is now Belgium. The detailed depiction of the prehistoric ...

A MASSIVE stone temple built 1,000 years ago has been uncovered, revealing the secrets of an ancient civilisation. The historic structure, known as Palaspata, was discovered in a remote part of Sou… ...