The excavation of a Stone Age community center in Ukraine is helping explain why large groups of tens of thousands of people flourished and then fell more than 5,000 years ago. The "megastructure" ...

Throughout the 1960s and ’70s, starry-eyed architects set their minds to megastructures – massive, multi-purpose designs that could house communities or even entire cities. Complex and expensive to ...

Enormous, ancient "megastructures" may hold clues to the demise of a once prosperous, democratic civilization, researchers have said. In analyzing the purpose of these vast structures, which formed ...

So called human-built megastructures may actually be slowing down the Earth's rotation. This isn't exactly new information, but it has recently been making the rounds again, especially on social media ...

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If your understanding of Stone Age humans is one of primitive cave people bashing rocks together, then perhaps it’s time to think again. Our ancient ancestors were able to build huge Neolithic ...

From the Great Pyramid at Giza to the towering skyscrapers of today, humans have engineered massive constructions for at least 5,000 years. But why? How do biology and human emotions affect our desire ...