A river that drained the slopes of a now-vanished volcano may have carved Yosemite Valley's depths during the last 10 million ...

Researchers discovered that pre-Inca stone structures from the mountains of Peru had secret rooms accessible to only the most ...

Researchers have found that a spear tip carved from bone, unearthed from Russia in 2003, is as old as 80,000 years.

Nearly 60 works from the famed Torlonia Collection are on view in Chicago.

If history is your passion, then Egypt is the best place to immerse yourself in the wonders of the ancient world. The Pyramids of Giza, one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World, stand as a ...

A cliffside Buddhist carving dating back to the Northern Qi (550-577) to Sui Dynasty (581-618) was recently discovered in Taiyuan, North China's Shanxi Province, during a field investigation by the ...

A scarab beetle set in gold shows that ancient Egyptians thought the heart was the most important organ in the human body.

King Djoser of Egypt ordered his chief architect, Imhotep, to design a tomb like no other - The Step Pyramid of Djoser.

A 100ft high artwork of a miner adorns a beach famously washed over each day with millions of coal particles which once supplied the former colliery. The giant bare-chested figure chiselling coal was ...

Koh Ker, once the Khmer Empire's capital, features the pyramid-shaped Prasat Thom temple, surrounded by forest, evoking ...

In short, yes – Petra is safe to visit. The site is well-maintained with trained personnel and established emergency ...