The Serapeum holds massive stone boxes that display signs of advanced machining, raising questions about the technology used by ancient ...

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.

An ancient woman thought to have hailed from sub-Saharan Africa and therefore to have been the first known Black Briton actually had fairer skin and was from southern England, researchers using new ...

A $2.3 million restoration is using advanced laser technology to clean and preserve the 1,840-year-old Rome’s Column of ...

Her body was a canvas. It told the story of her life. Her beliefs. Now, 2500 years later, this ancient ink is exposing a lost Iron Age culture.

While cleaning fossils retrieved from a cave on a Caribbean island, a researcher noticed something strange in the hollow ...

Recreating a fifth-century stitched ship, the Indian Navy has inducted INSV Kaundinya, reviving ancient shipbuilding ...

The sculptures are skillfully attached to the wall with iron wires, which reflects the rapid development of iron-processing ...