A huge quarry, along with tools and a key, used by workers some 2,000 years ago, have been discovered during an excavation in Jerusalem prior to the paving of a highway, the Israel Antiquities ...

A huge quarry, along with tools and a key, used by workers some 2,000 years ago have been discovered during an excavation in Jerusalem prior to the paving of a highway, the Israel Antiquities ...

In antiquity marble quarries on the western side of Mt. Hymettos supplied builders with useful material. These quarries, many of which are still preserved and visible today from Athens, have received ...

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What began as an expedition to record the inscriptions of ancient Egyptian quarry workers produced a remarkable discovery about the Great Pyramid at Giza. My colleagues and I in the Anglo-French joint ...

Archaeologists have discovered an ancient ramp system in a 4,500-year-old quarry in Egypt that might explain how ancient Egyptians built the pyramids. The sloping ramp lined with two staircases and ...

Dive into two of the strangest water mysteries on Earth. First, we explore the Black Sea - a place with layered waters that ...

An ancient quarry near Hadrian’s Wall in northern England offers a smutty glimpse into the lives of the Roman soldiers who built the famous fortification. Archaeologists from the U.K.’s Newcastle ...

Boston and its neighborhoods are historic for certain, but rarely does the city have an opportunity to place landmark status on a site dating back before the Egyptian pyramids or England’s Stonehenge.

Scientists have shed new light on the mysterious origins of Great Britain's Stonehenge. A team of researchers believe they have discovered how some of the ancient megaliths that make up the monument ...

AUSTIN — A $59,000 grant from the Minnesota Historical Society will help the Mower County Historical Society develop a millennium-old quarry as an educational and interpretive history site. The Grand ...