These ancient structures still stand - but the people who built them remain a mystery that history can’t fully explain.

Far off the coast of Brittany, a line of stone blocks lies hidden beneath the Atlantic, preserved where dry land once met the ...

The ingenuity of ancient Egyptian engineers may have been even more ahead of their time than we thought. A new study suggests a currently unexplained ancient structure may have been part of a water ...

It’s not just the pyramids. The ground around them holds massive precision-cut stone blocks, heavily eroded and far older than the temples above. Giza might be built on something ancient — and the ...

Waterpower may have given a big lift to builders of Egypt’s oldest known pyramid, the nearly 4,700-year-old Step Pyramid of Djoser at Saqqara. Ancient architects built a hydraulic system for hoisting ...

In an undated handout photo, the Magdala Stone, which was unearthed in 2009 near the Sea of Galilee in northern Israel, where a resort and center for Christian pilgrims was going to be built. The ...