Legend has it that in the Ming Dynasty, this area housed barrel-makers employed by Shen Wansan, Jiangnan's richest merchant.

There are very few remains of ancient ships, except in one unusual place: the Black Sea has a unique environment that ...

During a visit to Palmyra, reporters found traces of the many forces that had fought over the city and ancient monuments ...

"The 'sister' monument to Flagstones is Stonehenge, whose first phase is almost identical, but it dates to around 2900 BC. Could Stonehenge have been a copy of Flagstones? Or do these findings suggest ...

The museum’s construction has been such a fiasco — mired by funding lapses, logistical hurdles, a pandemic, nearby wars, ...

Visitors taking in the ancient pyramids of Giza ... (The 4,600-year-old Great Pyramid of Giza, built from around 2.3 million stone blocks and without the use of wheels, pulleys or iron tools ...

A British anthropologist has made the bombshell claim he has located the tomb of Jesus Christ in a secret chamber beneath the ...

AMELIA High grass and scaffolding without workers for weeks, a bad postcard for tourists arriving in Amelia to visit one of ...

Marble mining is a complex process that relies on powerful machinery to extract the stone from quarries ... used to break and cut the marble into large blocks. Once extracted, the marble blocks ...

These stone sculptures from Zimbabwe will take center stage at an upcoming exhibition at Oxford University in Britain, aiming ...

The Greek island paradise of Lemnos is an alluring blend of natural beauty, history, and off-the-beaten-path charm.

Fresh advances in 3D scanning technology are making it possible to explore some of the hardest-to-reach and most fragile ...