This aerial view captures a sweeping stone fortress etched into the cliffs above a narrow river valley. The fortifications stretch along the ridge in rhythmic arches and tunnels with carefully ...

The M-25 was a classified Soviet aircraft concept designed to use its sonic boom as a weapon rather than bombs or missiles. Developed in the late 1960s, it was intended to fly low and supersonic, ...

When people look at objects from the ECHO collection, they feel a connection to ancient Russian architecture, Olga ...

Archaeologists from the French National Institute of Preventive Archaeological Science (Inrap) have discovered a large ...

Oumar Cisse used to lead tours of Djenne, an ancient, fabled city in central Mali known for its towering mud-brick mosque, but he now ekes out a living driving an old motorcycle taxi in Bamako. Cisse ...

New genetic evidence shows that infectious diseases began to develop in America thousands of years before contact with Europe ...

Ukrainian sumo wrestler Danylo Yavhusishyn won his second straight tournament on Sunday to take his meteoric rise in the ...

The twin reactors of Hinkley Point C in Somerset will form the first nuclear power plant built in the UK for 30 years.

Khiva dates to the sixth century. Its earliest inhabitants came from nearby Iran. Turkic speakers became the majority, and ...

This searing piece, filed from Panna, one of India’s poorest corners, tells the tale of men and women who have spent years digging pits in the hope of finding a diamond. The shiny stone, they hope, ...

Walking into Before Barrelism Tracing the Origins of a Practice feels less like entering an exhibition and more like stepping ...