Many of Egypt’s most precise artifacts appear in the earliest periods of its history, not the later ones. This backward progression raises the possibility of inherited technology. Researchers now ...

Giant stone monuments older than Stonehenge were built by an ancient ‘water cult’, archaeologists say - It remains a mystery ...

Archaeologists at a Pompeii site buried by the 79 AD eruption of Mount Vesuvius have uncovered evidence of ancient Roman ...

New research shows Roman concrete relied on heat-driven mixing and reactive lime, giving it a surprising self-healing ability ...

Agon' director Giulio Bertelli discusses how he got Mubi to board his offbeat allegorical drama on sports, technology, social ...

More than a billion years ago, in a shallow basin across what is now northern Ontario, a subtropical lake much like ...

Researchers studied fossils, well-preserved remains and even a single fingerprint to solve some of history’s long-standing mysteries this year.

Testing involves scanning the brains of healthy participants and then subjecting them to a database of funny words, ...