Ancient Greeks used a primitive type of lifting machine to move heavy stones before they began using cranes 2,500 years ago.

Athens-based independent scholar Demetrius Savvides has shown that in Amphipolis, northern Greece, where the Kastas Monument ...

Along the bank of a river in southern France, an ancient people built their settlement ... a series of hydraulic structures, basins and masonry, divided into three different spaces, archaeologists ...

“The Egyptians were masters of limestone masonry, and their sculptors would have easily been ... Founded over 2,000 years ago along the ancient Arabian trade routes, Petra was at one time home to a ...

Throughout history, civilizations across the world have created materials that were way ahead of their times using limited ...

The ancient builders stood each megalithic stone ... which were constructed from stone masonry walls. The plaza may have been ritually closed sometime between 500 BC and 200 BC, according to ...

exploratory pits two years ago until stone walls several feet thick and dozens of feet long were exposed. "In one trench, we hit a massive piece of masonry — it was about three or four feet wide ...

But what is structural masonry ... stone walls are still being built, but much more for their aesthetic aspects than for being the only viable structural option, as was the case in ancient times.

[Related: Mystery language on ancient stone tablet stumps archeologists.] As Archeology News notes, it unfortunately may be a while before archeologists can return to examining San Miguel.

Archeologists in Spain have recently uncovered an ancient rock slab with an alphabet inscribed that predates the Rosetta Stone by roughly 400 years. The discovery in southwest Spain is believed to ...

Terracotta pipes embedded in stone walls ... basins and masonry, divided into three different spaces, archaeologists said. The site was built on the outskirts of an ancient settlement, researchers ...