In 2017, retired French geologist Yves Fouquet was looking at charts of the ocean floor around Sein Island that had been produced via laser mapping. To Fouquet, the formation – stretching 120 meters ...

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 ...

Nearly 400 mysterious ancient stone structures have been identified in the Saudi Arabian desert by an Australian researcher using Google Earth. David Kennedy, whose team has spent decades recording ...

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 ...

The discovery, located in Grindasundet near the village of Telavåg, is the first time such physical evidence has been found underwater and linked to the oldest recorded Norwegian laws. "The newly ...

Whether they're sites of worship, popular tourist attractions or luxury apartments, there are plenty of historic landmarks still flourishing today. Read on to see the world's oldest man-made ...

A major restoration of the Colosseum has given it a bright new look, using the same travertine stone Roman builders used 2,000 years ago.