Concrete was the foundation of the ancient Roman empire. It enabled Rome's storied architectural revolution as well as the ...

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

Making fire on demand was a milestone in the lives of our early ancestors. But the question of when that skill first arose ...

An investigation into the evidence for ancient high technology found across the world. We look into the evidence for ...

A group of scientists are studying the Cyclades, an island group in Greece's Aegean Sea, looking for signs of early human ...

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 ...

As far as kitchen staples, you don’t really get much better than olive oil. It can do it all—jazz up a salad, sauté ...

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 ...

Oddly shaped conch shells found at Neolithic archaeological sites dating back 6,000 years could have served as technology for ...

Concrete was the foundation of the Roman Empire. For centuries, researchers have tried to uncover the secret behind the ...