Researchers have uncovered a 3,000-foot-long stone wall buried beneath the Baltic Sea. This ancient structure, more than 10,000 years old, was discovered by a class on a field trip in northern Germany ...

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 ...

Four enormous stone hunting traps have been discovered that could be the oldest ever found in prehistoric Europe.

A monumental archaeological discovery in northern China is reshaping what we know about early human settlement and society. Near the city of Yulin in Shaanxi Province, researchers have uncovered an ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The site is an ancient ring fort perched on a hilltop in County Donegal, offering panoramic views and steeped in Irish ...

Ancient fossil structures imprinted on rocks that were once deep beneath the ocean suggest the search for the first life on ...

[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 ...

A dog walker along the U.K. coast found stone structures later identified by archaeologists as centuries-old bait tanks, photos show. Photo from Sarah Winlow via Northumberland Coast National ...