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

Check out this video showing how one man uses **primitive technology** to create an elaborate **swimming pool** inside an ...

Experience the art of primitive technology as he constructs a simple structure and a unique swimming pool entirely by hand, ...

Roman “wax tablets” were wooden frames holding a thin layer of wax used like a reusable notepad. The wax is gone in the Tongeren material, but stylus pressure sometimes bit deep enough to leave ...

The Tyrannosaurus rex, long thought to be a fast-growing apex predator, may have had a much slower path to adulthood than ...

Archaeologists have uncovered a 2,400-year-old Hercules shrine and elite Roman tombs in Rome’s suburbs, revealing new ...

Some stars appear to defy time itself. Nestled within ancient star clusters, they shine bluer and brighter than their neighbors, looking far younger than their true age. Known as blue straggler stars, ...

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 ...

Uxmal is one of the crown jewels of Puuc architecture, a style of Maya building that flourished in the Yucatán over 1,000 ...

Closed paths, unseen monuments, and more than 1,100 unknown artifacts return to light, weaving ancient Athens into a dialogue ...

The 67,800-year-old hand stencil looks like a claw—and provides new clues about early human cognition and the migration to ...

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 ...