From inscriptions etched on stone to coins buried beneath the earth, the writing of history depends upon diverse sources that illuminate political power, social life, religion, economy and culture. A ...

From Youghal on the far edge of the county to Cobh, East Cork is a place where history and landscape go hand in glove, and where its maritime legacy lives on in new visitor experiences. There is much ...

A discovery of a 6,300-year-old megalithic grave site in central Iberia recalibrates the history of funerary tradition. The ...

Hundreds of stone jars, some weighing several tons, are scattered across the remote highlands of northern Laos. Despite ...

The Sahara’s 3.6 million square miles (9.2 million square kilometers) of scorching sand actually comprise several deserts ...

Called bernwoodite, it’s one of two new minerals Korolev and his adviser at the AMNH, Kate Kiseeva, and their colleagues ...

Accountants enjoy something of a rarefied and privileged life. We are well paid for doing jobs that are rarely dirty and never dangerous, unless a heart ...

The megaliths at the Mnajdra temple complex had been standing strong for some 5,000 years. But it took just one fateful night, 25 years ago, for vandals to topple 60 of the heavy stones in an attack ...

Anyone driving across Gozo in recent weeks may have noticed a striking new landmark on the roundabout between Victoria and Nadur, at the point where the road branches uphill towards Xagħra. Rising ...

“Megaliths represent the earliest form of monumental stone architecture,” write the authors of the new study, and the Menga Dolmen is a fantastic example. This prehistoric megalithic structure near ...