Why study Paleolithic technology? What can old stone tools, ancient fire pits, and painted cave walls tell us about our evolutionary past?

The settlement roughly dates back to the transition from the Neolithic period to the Bronze Age. Researchers used noninvasive ...

Once thought lost forever, the ancient stronghold has been mapped in detail thanks to breakthrough laser-scanning technology.

Ancient Lost Worlds and Hidden History. On location videos made by author and adventurer Brien Foerster exploring Peru, Bolivia, Egypt, Hawaii, Easter Island and other exotic places. With special ...

Eleven students took a 2,000-year-old rice recipe and combined it with modern technology, resurrecting a dish that may inspire new culinary innovations.

New imaging technology has allowed scientists to decipher the tattoos of an Iron Age mummy—and study them like never before.

A 21-year-old computer-science student has won a global contest to read the first text inside a carbonized scroll from the ancient Roman city of Herculaneum, which had been unreadable since a ...

A billionaire has unveiled a private collection of ancient Egyptian vases he believes could rewrite history. The artifacts are 10 times more precise than vases carved using modern machinery.

Teeth from an elderly man who lived around the time that the earliest pyramids were built have yielded the first full human genome sequence from ancient Egypt. “It’s incredibly exciting and ...

A 12-year-old school boy in Canada has created a working death ray based on the model by ancient Greek mathematician ...

How old are the Dead Sea Scrolls? An AI model can help Scientists are using it to estimate the age of ancient handwriting ...