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

A 5500-year-old genome recovered from human skeletal remains in Colombia may give insights into the early evolution of ...

By resurrecting a 3.2-billion-year-old enzyme and studying it inside living microbes, researchers at the University of Wisconsin–Madison have created a new way to improve our understanding of the ...

From robots that can diagnose viruses to smartphone apps that translate ancient Egypt's hieroglyphs in real time, Egypt's young generation of tech entrepreneurs is turning artificial intelligence from ...

Glad to be rid of that morning breath? Mints and toothpaste are just some of the things ancient Egyptians had a hand in creating. Message to Ken Burns: What Lincoln said about our founders on slavery ...

Archaeologists working at an excavation site in Pompeii have uncovered new evidence that helps explain why ancient Roman buildings have lasted for thousands of years. The discovery points to a special ...

Archaeologists excavating a Pompeii site uncovered the secret behind the longevity of ancient Roman structures: a unique concrete mixture that could chemically repair itself over time. A recent study, ...

When I was seven years old, there was only one book release I cared about: Egyptology: Search for the Tomb of Osiris (2004). A scrapbook journal from a lost expedition, the bestselling children’s book ...

This redefines “high” society in ancient Egypt. Yale University researchers have found trace amounts of opium jars in an ancient Egyptian vessel, proving that opium use was widespread in the land of ...

Shabti, the ancient Egyptian funerary figurines that were supposed to work for the deceased in their afterlife, have revealed the identity of a pharaoh in an unnamed sarcophagus. Pharaoh Shoshenq III ...

The newly excavated 4,500-year-old valley temple from ancient Egypt holds a "public calendar" and a roof for astronomical observation. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an ...