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 ...

Hubble’s ultraviolet survey of 48 globular clusters shows blue straggler stars form mainly through interactions with ...

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

“Our results push back the association of T. pallidum with humans by thousands of years, possibly more than 10,000 years ago ...

Astronomers in Japan have discovered a supermassive black hole growing at impossible speed, breaking the cosmic Eddington ...

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

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

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 ...

Long thought to have walked bipedally, like us, Australia’s extinct giant kangaroos have features that indicate they could ...

Giant ancestors of modern-day kangaroos—which previous research has estimated could weigh up to 250 kilograms—may have been ...