A building four times the size of any house around it stood at the entrance of a small prehistoric settlement in northeastern ...

The oldest scale plans of human made mega structures are reported in the open access journal PLOS ONE on May 17, 2023. The engravings, dated to between 7,000 and 8,000 years old, depict nearby desert ...

A new study explores a mega structure in Romania, offering insights into how early Cucuteni communities organized social and political life.

Archaeologists in Romania have uncovered a 350-square-meter prehistoric mega-structure from the Cucuteni-Trypillia culture, ...

There's rarely time to write about every cool science-y story that comes our way. So this year, we're once again running a special Twelve Days of Christmas series of posts, highlighting one science ...

(CNN) — Archaeologists working in Saudi Arabia and Jordan say they have discovered the oldest known architectural plans. The “extremely precise depictions” engraved on stone slabs detail huge ...

Researchers have identified engravings in Jordan and Saudi Arabia as the oldest known scaled building plans in human history. An international team of researchers including the University of Freiburg ...

Although human constructions have modified natural spaces for millennia, few plans or maps predate the period of the literate civilizations of Mesopotamia and Ancient Egypt. Researchers from the ...