The Neolithic island in Loch Bhorgastail appears to be made of stone, but researchers have used new techniques to investigate ...

As dawn broke on Saturday, some 25,000 people erupted in cheers at Stonehenge. The sun rose over the ancient monument, marking the summer solstice, the longest day of the year in the Northern ...

Over 500 ancient stone monuments dot the rolling hills of southwestern Spain. La Torre-La Janera stretches across 220 acres in Huelva province. Prehistoric humans built this sacred landscape starting ...

This article was produced by National Geographic Traveller (UK). If you’re after must-see sights, the monuments of ancient civilisations are right at the top. And it’s not just because their temples, ...

There are ancient sites that overwhelm the eye through scale alone. Puma Punku does something stranger. Scattered across the high Bolivian plateau are stone blocks so precise, so sharply cut, and so ...

The artifacts are now on view in Ankara, in an exhibition that also features a repatriated statue of the Roman emperor Marcus Aurelius. This large stone vessel that archaeologists excavated at Karahan ...

Oldowan stone tools made from a variety of raw materials sourced more than 6 miles away from where they were found in southwestern Kenya. The development of the Oldowan toolkit made it possible for ...

Scientists uncover an ancient Ethiopian site preserving daily life, movement, and death from the Middle Stone Age.

Perched at an altitude of around 600 meters, Am Cac Pagoda is not only a sacred spiritual site but also a place of enduring ...

If you’re after must-see sights, the monuments of ancient civilisations are right at the top. And it’s not just because their temples, tombs, cities and citadels are superlative feats of archaeology — ...