Jetavanaramaya, a colossal fourth-century Sri Lankan stupa, was once among the world’s largest structures — a vast and ancient brick-built engineering marvel born out of religious rivalry that has ...

Ancient Greek astronomers made important observations regarding the night sky long before the first ...

Constructed between the eleventh and fifteenth centuries, Great Zimbabwe features massive stone enclosures built entirely without mortar. Granite blocks were carefully shaped and stacked to create ...

New findings from NASA's Perseverance rover have revealed evidence of wave-formed beaches and rocks altered by subsurface ...

The findings suggest that calm lake conditions existed earlier than previously thought.

New pieces have been added to the puzzle of the evolution of some of the oldest fish that lived on Earth more than 400 ...

Waitomo is a region on New Zealand famous for glittering glowworms that hang from caves. But deep inside a jagged crevice ...

Beneath the Lahun pyramid sits a granite chamber containing what may be the most precisely made granite object ever found in Egypt. Flinders Petrie measured this box and described mechanical level ...

Ancient wooden boats, some dating back 5,200 years, have been discovered in Wisconsin's Lake Mendota. This significant find ...

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