Archaeologists at a Pompeii site buried by the 79 AD eruption of Mount Vesuvius have uncovered evidence of ancient Roman ...
The Serapeum holds massive stone boxes that display signs of advanced machining, raising questions about the technology used ...
An ancient woman thought to have hailed from sub-Saharan Africa and therefore to have been the first known Black Briton actually had fairer skin and was from southern England, researchers using new ...
Concrete was the foundation of the ancient Roman empire. It enabled Rome's storied architectural revolution as well as the ...
Across the globe, a race is under way to crack some of the last mysterious forms of writing that have never been translated.
Making fire on demand was a milestone in the lives of our early ancestors. But the question of when that skill first arose ...
New research shows Roman concrete relied on heat-driven mixing and reactive lime, giving it a surprising self-healing ability ...
In a groundbreaking archaeological discovery, researchers have unearthed a 476,000-year-old wooden structure at Kalambo Falls in northern Zambia, offering a ...
From mudstones on Mars to strange gases in exoplanet atmospheres, tentative evidence for extraterrestrial life is starting to ...
A group of scientists are studying the Cyclades, an island group in Greece's Aegean Sea, looking for signs of early human activity. They are using technology such as laser scanning and magnetometry, ...
A remarkably intact pottery vessel dating back more than 10,000 years has been recovered from the depths of Lake Biwa, Japan, marking one of the oldest and most significant ceramic discoveries in ...
Excavations of an ancient construction site in Pompeii have revealed the process of how Romans mixed their self-healing ...