Ordinarily, it is the task of archaeologists to painstakingly sift through the ground in pursuit of the past. A recent project in central Germany, however, has done something altogether different.

There are countless megalithic sites around the world, but while Stonehenge may be the most famous, know this: it is not the oldest or biggest. The site of Göbekli Tepe, in Turkey, dates back about 11 ...

Thousands of years ago, before the Romans, before the Greeks, even before the Old Kingdom of Egypt, an unknown people erected megalithic monuments on Earth. Their works span continents and millennia, ...