Archaeologists recently found a massive stone basin in Italy dating back more than 2,000 years — remnants of a once-powerful ...

Mesopotamians, the ancient inhabitants of the land between the Euphrates and Tigris rivers, are credited for many firsts in ...

The British sculptor Antony Gormley and the Japanese architect Tadao Ando designed an installation evoking the ancient Roman dome. Building it was complicated.

After innumerable interruptions, delays and setbacks, the world’s largest museum dedicated to a single civilization comes to ...

The poor state of the ruins made the idea of keeping them difficult to imagine, as did the relative uncertainty of final costs. While each project is unique, a renovation of an historic building can ...

For almost 5,000 years Stonehenge has passed through different building stages, stood proudly through all weathers, and ...

The Stone Demonstrator produces only 6,443kg of CO2 – less than 3% of the others. The stone is cut from quarries and in this ...

What can an ancient water basin discovered near Rome reveal about construction, engineering and water management techniques that may be useful today?

From the heart of the earth a magnificent Roman style temple roof rises built entirely by bare hands from solid stone every detail echoing the elegance and strength of ancient design.

A new theory shows the Great Pyramid was built from the inside out, using counterweights and pulleys instead of massive ...

Archaeologists in the Middle East have unearthed a stunning 5,500 year old piece of evidence that changes what we know about ...