Clues from a digital reconstruction of a lavish ancient home are changing how researchers understand Pompeii’s elite.

NEW YORK (AP) — In the quest to build better for the future, some are looking for answers in the long-ago past. Ancient builders across the world created structures that are still standing today, ...

We use seismographs to record the time, location, and magnitude of earthquakes as they happen. But in the last three decades, ...

Many of the world’s most beautiful beach towns started as ancient ports, bustling with trade, sailors, and cultural exchange.

The Colosseum, inaugurated in A.D. 80, seated 50,000 and hosted gladiatorial games, ritual animal hunts, parades and executions. Tiziana Fabi / AFP / Getty Images The Romans started making concrete ...

Airborne laser scanners that can peer through the jungle have revealed what may be the oldest and largest ancient Mayan structure ever found — a 3,000-year-old ceremonial platform almost a mile long ...

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