Venturing into an Etruscan tomb once meant crawling through rubble, breathing dust, and crawling into rooms excavated more ...

Modern "sustainable"' innovations in architecture are failing to slow climate change, but revisiting ancient knowledge and ...

For the first time in the United States, visitors to the Smithsonian’s National Museum of Asian Art can enjoy a remarkable group of roof-ridge ornaments that were fashionable in Korea more than 1,000 ...

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 ...

In this issue of our environmental newsletter, we look at a sun-powered strategy from ancient civilizations to bring fresh, cool air into buildings; track individual monarchs on their migration to ...

Heterostyly, a floral polymorphism where a species produces two or three distinct flower types with reciprocal arrangements ...

Discover Kondana Caves of Maharashtra: ancient Buddhist rock-cut wonders dating back to the 1st century BCE. Surrounded by ...

ANTH copy 39088019656784 gift from Paul R. Julian. Contents Introduction -- Discovering the Incas and their predecessors -- Native and Spanish sources -- Explorers and the first archaeologists -- 20th ...

The architecture of St. Louis has a long and storied pedigree, going far back in history past its 254 years of existence. Whenever I visit Rome, Italy, I’m always amazed at the richness of its ...

Vietnam's ancient town of Hoi An has been named the most beautiful historic center in Asia by French online travel platform ...

For most of the world, Rioja equals big, blended red wines that deliver far more to your palate than they demand from your wallet. That’s a fair, and for the most part, accurate generalization.