Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. Archaeologists have discovered mysterious ancient architecture cut into a rocky landscape on Madagascar, the world's ...

Archaeologists can use the design of ancient temples, plazas, and cities to piece together the story of how a place was ...

In the early morning in Taiyuan, capital of North China's Shanxi Province, sunlight filters through centuries-old cypress trees in front of the Shengmu Hall (Holy Mother Hall) at the Jinci Temple, ...

Throughout our time on Earth, we humans have created some pretty cool stuff.

Many ancient Egyptian, Greek and Islamic religious buildings share a common feature known as hypostyle. Defined as rows of columns that support a roof, this solution has developed in different ...

Much before humans constructed their first permanent shelters, they discovered the protective power of animal hides as a barrier against harsh environmental conditions. This fundamental principle of ...

An ancient Pompeii wall at a newly excavated site, where Associate Professor Admir Masic applied compositional analysis (overlayed to right) to understand how ancient Romans made concrete that has ...

Located just minutes from Garden of the Gods in Colorado Springs, the Manitou Cliff Dwellings offer a hands-on look at ancient architecture and the culture of the Ancestral Puebloans. More than 700 ...

The ancient architecture of America, its historical value and parallelism of development with the architecture of the Old world, a discourse delivered before the N. Y. Hist. Soc., at its meeting April ...