Another tech education tool offers a timeline for how the pyramids were built over a period of roughly 500 years, evolving from simple mud-brick mastabas to elaborate stone structures. The museum ...

Gobekli Tepe, an ancient site in southeastern Turkey, is believed to be the world's oldest known building, dating back at ...

The Maya civilization, one of the most sophisticated pre-Columbian cultures, flourished across present-day Mexico, Guatemala, ...

Ethiopia has many artifacts, including stone statues, stelae, icons, and fossils as well as stone artifacts. AllAfrica publishes around 500 reports a day from more than 110 news organizations and over ...

Amethyst was fashionable in the Middle Kingdom. Archaeologists discovered jewelry belonging to Middle Kingdom queens and princesses in pyramids at a site called Dahshur around 25 miles south of Cairo.

Among the other exhibits include the stone stelae Pharaoh Ramses II placed in Israel after his conquest of the region, to interactive recreations of earthenware pithos made as religious offerings to ...

The world’s oldest dated rune stone, a landmark discovery revealed in 2023, is just one piece of a larger, nearly 2,000-year-old slab, new research has found. Now, scientists in Norway are ...

Hollywood star Sharon Stone tells BBC 100 Women how she used her fame as a sex symbol in the 1990s - a term she didn't always enjoy - to raise money for humanitarian causes and recounts the ...

The monument includes the field of Stelae, created by Peter Eisenman in partnership with the underground Information Centre. It comes shortly after an 18-year-old Russian man was arrested by ...