Archaeologists have long thought that monumental architecture—large, human-built structures that emphasize visibility—were products of societies with power structures, including social hierarchy, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. We see a dirt field with a flattened barrow (mound) that has cut marks in it like rays from a sun. There are workers and an ...

Archaeologists in Germany’s Bavaria have unearthed an elaborately constructed but empty circular stone grave they suspect to be an “extremely rare” Roman-era burial mound. The stone circle was ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A flat-topped mound (diagonal on left side of this July 2019 aerial picture) forms part of the 50-acre Hopewell Octagon Earthworks ...

Archaeologists in Croatia have unearthed a 2,500-year-old helmet that once belonged to the Illyrians, a group of northern “barbarians” who lived on the periphery of ancient Greece and Rome. The rare ...

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Every day when Logan Pappenfort is at work, he tries not to dwell on what’s under his feet. Beneath the south wing of the museum where he’s interim director are the remains of at least 234 of his ...

Many people assume that all Indian mounds are burial mounds, but Newark’s Great Circle and Octagon Earthworks aren’t cemeteries. Instead, they are the walls of huge earthen cathedrals. Like many ...