Archaeologists have discovered mysterious ancient architecture cut into a rocky landscape on Madagascar, the world's fourth largest island, a study says. The study details recent investigations at ...

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 ...

The Tivoli quarries, famous for supplying travertine to ancient Roman architecture, continue to be a vital resource for modern construction, reflecting both historical significance and contemporary ...

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 ...

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 ...

In the tender early-summer sunlight, Xu Ye'er stood in the main hall of a historic temple in North China's Shanxi Province. She looked up, and when her gaze met the Ming Dynasty (1368-1644) murals on ...

Concrete was the foundation of the ancient Roman empire. It enabled Rome's storied architectural revolution as well as the construction of buildings, bridges, and aqueducts, many of which are still ...