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

After more than a century of speculation, researchers have traced the likely origins of the legendary Hjortspring boat through chemical analysis of its construction materials and the discovery of an ...

The discovery’s highlight was a 247-pound cannon from the Ming dynasty, but archaeologists also found remains of crops and ...

Pompeii Archeological Park site map, with showing where the ancient building site is located, with colour coded piles of raw construction materials (right): purple: debris; green: piles of dry ...

The Hjortspring boat carried warriors on an attempted attack of a Danish island over 2,000 years ago. Archaeologists have new ...

The museum campus – the largest devoted to a single civilisation – took more than 20 years to build. Read more at ...

Researchers have discovered the earliest known instance of human-created fire, which took place in the east of England 400,000 years ago. The new discovery, in the village of Barnham, pushes the ...

When researchers first saw the ghostly outline of an ancient hull glowing on their screens, they were looking at a ship so intact that its age seemed almost impossible. The vessel lay far beyond the ...

The tiny pantheon known as the Asgard archaea bear traits that hint at how plants, animals and fungi emerged on Earth.

Harvard researchers have discovered that cycads—one of the oldest living lineages of seed plants—heat up their reproductive ...

While many modern plants use colorful flowers to attract pollinators, ancient palm-like plants called cycads lure them by ...