A growing number of ancient Egyptian stone vases are being digitally scanned and analyzed with modern engineering tools. The ...

The ancient world holds secrets that continue to baffle archaeologists, historians, and curious minds today. From cities that ...

For the first time, scientists have used DNA preserved in ancient sediments to examine how a major natural disaster affected ...

Mushrooms have been used by ancient humans for millennia, but archaeologists have only just uncovered their pivotal role in ...

It's weird that we have been told over and over that gladiators fought to the death, when it wasn't even true.

Carbon that has been buried in the Congo Basin's peatlands for millennia is seeping into lakes and rivers. Why this is happening remains unclear, but researchers warn that tropical peatlands could be ...

Morgan Freeman narrates this visually stunning four-part series — but is it more style than substance?

Using a tool to solve a protein's structure, for most researchers in the world of structural biology and computational chemistry, is not unlike using the Rosetta Stone to unlock the secrets of ancient ...

New Orleans wrecked me in the best way possible.” Jared Stacy arrived in Louisiana as a young evangelical pastor certain of what he believed. His years in New Orleans — including a moment outside ...

There’s also skepticism from London’s famed black cab drivers, who must pass a grueling training course known as “The ...

Interactive installations and visualisations will explain how water formed the Tatra cave systems over thousands of years.

Around 40,000 years ago, Paleolithic people inscribed bone with symbols that appear to be part of some sort of writing system.