A demonstration of an ancient device reveals how simple physics can create extremely fast spinning motion, showing that ...

Archaeologists working at an excavation site in Pompeii have uncovered new evidence that helps explain why ancient Roman buildings have ...

Her body was a canvas. It told the story of her life. Her beliefs. Now, 2500 years later, this ancient ink is exposing a lost Iron Age culture.

The Serapeum holds massive stone boxes that display signs of advanced machining, raising questions about the technology used by ancient ...

Archaeologists from the University of Copenhagen and the University of Bergen have used AI and free digital tools to create a ...

An ancient woman thought to have hailed from sub-Saharan Africa and therefore to have been the first known Black Briton actually had fairer skin and was from southern England, researchers using new ...

In a groundbreaking discovery that could reshape our understanding of ancient human technology, archaeologists have unearthed a wooden structure dating back ...

The completion of a South American lung fish genome sequencing represents one of the most remarkable moments within current ...

About 2,400 years ago, before the emergence of the Roman empire, a small armada of boats approached the island of Als off the ...

Across the globe, a race is under way to crack some of the last mysterious forms of writing that have never been translated.

Deep in the heart of northern Zambia, an astonishing archaeological find is reshaping our understanding of early human history. Hidden beneath the powerful ...