Egyptian officials recently announced the discovery of a 3,000-year-old mining complex, complete with remnants of ancient homes ... broken pieces of pottery and stone that were used to write ...

There it was: an ancient Roman tomb weighing as much ... wealth and status once called this coffin home. Each chisel mark on the stone represents hours of skilled craftsmanship, while the chosen ...

This is a tool the ancient Egyptians used to work stone. It's a copper chisel. Copper was the hardest metal they had. But it isn't that hard. It blunts quite quickly. So a chisel like this was ...

Although experts have analyzed the carving, it's possible that its origins could rest in the ancient Bronze Age or even Turkish cultures dated to the medieval period. The land known today as ...

In both ancient and modern contexts ... Today, all that is left of these sites are the stone wall ruins. These settlements were densely populated. They consisted of central kraals (livestock ...