Göbekli Tepe is a massive monolithic complex in southeastern Turkey. Archaeologists have hypothesized that the site is the ...

Archaeologists have discovered the world's oldest calendar showing the sun and moon. It’s carved into a large stone pillar at ...

The latest findings cast light on the history of a major civilization that is considered to be one of the world's first ...

It contains the oldest known temple ... nothing of comparable scale existed in the world. Pillars at the temple of Göbekli Tepe—11,600 years old and up to 18 feet tall may represent priestly ...

A man whose job it is to help preserve Japan's cultural heritage has accidentally smashed his car into the country's oldest toilet at a centuries-old Buddhist temple. The communal loo at Tofukuji ...

The oldest religious site in Tokyo is also ... new reconstructions of previous edifices (during World War II, nearly the entire temple was razed). The Senso-ji Temple is dedicated to Asakusa ...