Think ancient civilizations were primitive? The evidence suggests otherwise.From computers that tracked celestial events to ...

The so‑called Baghdad battery has long sat at the crossroads of science, archaeology, and speculation, its humble clay jar ...

"This technology is the key that opens new rooms of the ancient world," said Gabriel Zuchtriegel, director of the vast ...

Scenes of battle and words of romantic passion were scratched over 2,000 years ago onto a corridor wall outside of a theater.

Arms technology is one of the driving forces behind warfare. While there was a period where most of humanity was ...

The machine generated at the SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory in Menlo Park can looking deeply into a piece of parchment, ...

How do cutting-edge science and technology respond to ethical and legal issues when incorporated into society? These issues ...

Archaeologists from University College London and the Natural History Museum suggest the findings offer insights into the cognitive abilities of early human ancestors.

The project, described by Pompeii officials as Bruits de couloir (“corridor whispers”), used Reflectance Transformation Imaging (RTI), a computational photography technique that photographs a surface ...

Ancient messages and drawings are among hundreds of inscriptions that archaeologists recently uncovered on a wall in Pompeii.

For as long as humans have buried their dead, they've dreamed of keeping them close. The ancient Fayum portraits—those ...