Two pieces of a 3,000-year-old monumental gate complex from the Neo-Hittite Kingdom of Patina have been unearthed at Tell Tayinat, which is located in southeastern Turkey. The first piece is the head and waist portion of a colossal statue depicting a bearded man with curly hair. It has inlaid eyes of white and black stone. The […]

Rome’s Colosseum is listing about 16 inches to the south, according to a report released by Rossella Rea, director of the monument. Giorgio Monti of La Sapienza University thinks there may be a crack in the slab of concrete on which the building sits. His university and the environmental geology institute IGAG will study the problem, […]