But there are plenty of other ancient structures that deserve our attention too, from a 2,000-year-old church to a more than 1,000-year-old Buddhist temple that’s made out of timber. Even more ...

The world’s oldest man-made wooden structures dating back to the Early Stone Age have been found in Africa – suggesting our ancestors were far more advanced than previously believed.

While Guinness World Records officially lists the Djoser Step pyramid in Egypt as the world’s oldest pyramid (around 2,630 BC), one paper published in October claimed a layer of the Gunung Padang ...

Scientists have found a giant wall ... If they're right, it could be the "oldest man-made megastructure in Europe," the paper declares. Although the entire structure is now submerged under 69 ...

it would place Yonaguni in the same league as Göbekli Tepe in Turkey — one of the oldest known man-made structures, dated to around 9500 BC,” he said. Japanese geologist Masaaki Kimura has ...

Archaeologists have unexpectedly uncovered London’s oldest timber ... The structure, apparently a platform or trackway used to make a boggy area more navigable, was found during the excavation ...