Explore the possibility of lost ancient high technology in Egypt through the study of mysterious megalithic stonework found in some of the most fascinating archaeological sites. This video examines ...

New research reveals how the invention of a crucial Ice Age technology helped humans defend against extreme cold during ...

The oceans of the Cretaceous of North America teemed with life. Gigantic fish and enormous marine reptiles hunted the Western Interior Sea. A unique new fossil demonstrates rare evidence of direct ...

For the first time, scientists have used DNA preserved in ancient sediments to examine how a major natural disaster affected ...

The Archimedes Palimpsest is a 10th-century Byzantine Greek manuscript that was overwritten in the 13th century with a Christian liturgical text. This practice of creating a palimpsest, or a reused ...

A study has traced thousands of conserved regulatory elements back 300 million years, revealing deep principles of plant genome evolution—a discovery that could pave the way for more precise ...

"Only the use of technology can guarantee a future for all this memory of life lived in Pompeii." ...

Mount Vesuvius buried Pompeii, but its graffiti survived. New tech just revealed what it's been hiding.

Mushrooms have been used by ancient humans for millennia, but archaeologists have only just uncovered their pivotal role in ...

A study led by McKenna Litynski, a recent Ph.D. graduate in anthropology and adjunct assistant professor at the University of ...

The Widmanstätten pattern also hints at how the meteorite was processed by the ancient Egyptians. The cross-hatched texture, ...

Archaeologists say they’ve finally pinpointed the site of a long-lost city founded by Alexander the Great - a bustling port ...