On Native American Heritage Day, we examine a long-overlooked marvel of ancient engineering that had been tucked away beneath ...

For decades, Egypt’s pyramids have stood as stoic marvels of ancient ingenuity. Historians have debated for a long time how civilizations with no modern-day equipment managed to haul these humongous ...

Can modern engineers learn best practices from ancient road builders? Modern road construction often relies on modifying the landscape by blasting through rock, which can result in landslides. Because ...

Learn which engineering branch is known as the oldest engineering discipline. Learn about its history, its significance, the ...

Aerial view of the temple of Venus located in the archaeological park of Baia, a hamlet of Bacoli, in the metropolitan city of Naples, in Campania, Italy. It was an octagonal thermal building, with ...

The ingenuity of the construction techniques used by Greek builders 2,000 years ago continues to dazzle the world. What did these ancient engineers get right? And how does looking to the past help ...

MIT scientists examined concrete samples from the archaeological site of Privernum, Italy (left) and mapped out the ingredients within (right). The red section is a calcium-rich lime clast. Courtesy ...

The ancient Inca built a complex system of roads that span some 20,000 miles and range in altitude from sea level to 14,000 feet, all without the benefit of special tools or even a formal writing ...

Ancient Aliens wonders if the builders of megalithic structures like Stonehenge had help! Cr. Mactographer This week on Ancient Aliens: Declassified, the show looks at whether ancient builders got ...

Ancient civilizations were dropping technological bombshells long before Silicon Valley existed. Just this year, archaeologists in Turkey uncovered 2,400-year-old tablets containing unknown encryption ...