This video shows an ancient circular stone structure, likely Grianán of Aileach in County Donegal, Ireland. The ring-shaped fort sits on top of a hill, surrounded by open grassland and low vegetation, ...

The mysterious alignments of standing stones scattered across Brittany in France have intrigued archaeologists and tourists alike for centuries. Now, fresh discoveries at the Le Plasker site near ...

[music playing]NARRATOR: Aswan, Southern Egypt, March 1813.Swiss explorer Johann Burckhardt is traveling northalong the Nile River when he comesacross three massive stone heads protruding from the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Ancient civilizations accomplished feats of engineering that continue to challenge modern understanding. Despite advances in ...

Archaeologists in south-east Turkey have made an extraordinary find—a prehistoric stone face that might turn everything we believe about the origins of art and self-awareness on its head. In the early ...

Curious sunken features beneath the Great Lakes are helping to reveal clues to a lost chapter in the prehistory of the ...

In Western Europe alone, there are 50,000 of them, with Stonehenge being the most famous. But ancient stone structures aren’t restricted to one continent–they’ve been discovered all over the globe.

I visited Stonehenge for the first time a little more than a year ago, and as I strolled around the ancient monument, I overheard an elderly American gentleman grumble to his companion that “this was ...

As drought exposes ancient harbors and settlements in Lake Van and Lake İznik, experts highlight the urgent need for preservation and warn of the risks posed by the rise of “drought tourism.” The ...

Construction work in Germany unexpectedly revealed a large ancient Roman structure used as a false tomb, archaeologists said and photos show. Photo from Archäologiebüro Dr. Woidich GmbH Digging into ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Archaeologists in Turkey have found a 12,000-year-old stone pillar with a carved human face—the oldest known example of ...