New research has shed new light on the origins of the Carnac megaliths in France, making them perhaps the oldest monumental ...

Whether monuments take the form of a statue, building, or pillar, they present themselves as universal and timeless, expressing something essential about all of us—at least in a way that ...

Archaeologists must have one of the coolest jobs ever—as long as a lifetime of digging around in the dirt yields some epic ...

As dramatized in "The Monuments Men," (which of course tells only a sliver of the whole story, and one seriously altered and simplified to meet Hollywood-screenplay criteria), Jan van Eyck's ...