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 ...

A 3,300-year-old Mycenaean building in Greece known as the Melathron of Gla reveals advanced architectural planning.

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 ...

ROME (AP) — The Colosseum has a bright new look following a restoration using the same travertine marble of ancient Rome to recreate parts of columns from 2,000 years ago. Thousands of Romans once ...