In some of the driest parts of southern Africa, rock faces hold quiet records of much older worlds. Marble and limestone ...

Looks like limestone’s on the menu for some unknown microbe.

JERUSALEM — Under threat from Romans ransacking Jerusalem 2,000 years ago, many of the city's Jewish residents crowded into an underground drainage channel to hide and later flee the chaos unnoticed ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. An underground tunnel network long rumored thanks to drawings by Leonardo da Vinci under Milan’s Sforza Castle is now proven to ...

During renovation of a street in Split, Croatia, archaeologists revealed an ancient Roman tunnel leading to cellars of Diocletian’s Palace. Photo from Vesna Bulić Baketić As workers dug up a street in ...

Mysterious micro-burrows in desert marble and limestone were probably made by microbes that lived millions of years ago. Exactly what kind of microbes bored into the rock remains unknown, as does ...

An underground tunnel network long rumored thanks to drawings by Leonardo da Vinci under Milan’s Sforza Castle are proven to exist. Ground-penetrating radar and laser scanning revealed that the ...