The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) recently released highlights from its 2025 survey of the USS Monitor, the iconic prototype ironclad warship that sank during the Civil War.

On a routine swim off Israel’s Mediterranean coast, archaeology graduate student Shlomi Katzin noticed something odd on the seafloor: the hilt of a sword protruding from the sand. Just before the ...

The FIRST Lego League robotics competition returned to Guam on Saturday, showcasing elementary school students’ innovation, ...

Little Foot, a 3.67 million-year-old human ancestor, is getting a digital facial reconstruction after her skull was crushed in a cave.

In the collections of the Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology at the University of Cambridge is a small copper-alloy tool from a cemetery at Badari in Upper Egypt. It is just 63 millimeters long ...

What if there were a way to create accurate replicas of ancient and historical instruments that could be played and heard?In late 2024, senior MIT postdoc Benjamin Sabatini wrote MIT Professor Eran ...

Researchers have uncovered the true purpose of a grand staircase in Pompeii's House of Thiasus villa which they believe led ...

The burial sites weren’t visible to the human eye, but a suite of technological tools found subtle differences in Czech farmland.

While many people are fixated on the future, there’s still plenty that we don’t know about the past. After all, our planet ...

Homo erectus skulls from China’s Yunxian archaeological site revealed ages close to two million years—a million years older ...

The Minoans’ obsession with solar eclipses led to the creation of remarkable hilltop observatories and potentially the first ...

If AI is tuned to find and trust expertise rather than dilute it, it can become humanity’s next great technology.