An ancient woman thought to have hailed from sub-Saharan Africa and therefore to have been the first known Black Briton ...

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 ...

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

Across the globe, a race is under way to crack some of the last mysterious forms of writing that have never been translated.

Concrete was the foundation of the ancient Roman empire. It enabled Rome's storied architectural revolution as well as the ...

In a groundbreaking archaeological discovery, researchers have unearthed a 476,000-year-old wooden structure at Kalambo Falls in northern Zambia, offering a ...

Making fire on demand was a milestone in the lives of our early ancestors. But the question of when that skill first arose ...

A remarkably intact pottery vessel dating back more than 10,000 years has been recovered from the depths of Lake Biwa, Japan, marking one of the oldest and most significant ceramic discoveries in ...

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

A group of scientists are studying the Cyclades, an island group in Greece's Aegean Sea, looking for signs of early human activity. They are using technology such as laser scanning and magnetometry, ...

The area around Boeslunde had already yielded 10 gold oath rings and approximately 2,200 gold spirals in previous excavations. Museum director and archaeologist Lone Claudi-Hansen explained their ...

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