The winged goddess of Victory standing on the prow of a ship overlooked the Sanctuary of the Great Gods on the island of Samothrace. This monument was…

Göbekli Tepe is a Neolithic archaeological site in the Southeastern Anatolia Region of Turkey. The settlement was inhabited from c. 9500 to at least 8000 BCE, during the Pre-Pottery…

Here’s what we know. Machu Picchu was built in 90 years, between the years 1450 and 1540. It’s located on a crest of the Peruvian Andes by…

Construction workers laying pipes in a park in southern Spain have unearthed a 600kg trove of Roman coins. The bronze coins dating from the late 4th Century…

Modern dentistry could learn a few lessons in bling from the Mayans – as they stuck colourful gemstones made of jade and turquoise on their teeth. But…

Predating Stonehenge by 6,000 years, Turkey’s stunning Gobekli Tepe upends the conventional view of the rise of civilization Six miles from Urfa, an ancient city in southeastern…

EGYPT’S “fourth great pyramid” was pinpointed by an expert, after he decoded an account given in a text that dates back almost 300 years. The Giza Plateau…

The gold outer coffin and the first inner coffin of King Tutankhamun are remarkable artifacts from the New Kingdom, specifically the 18th Dynasty of Egypt (1332-1323 BCE)….

The necropolis in Varna, a cemetery from 4,660–4,450 BC on the Bulgarian Black Sea coast, is home to the oldest gold objects that are now known to…