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

The ancient megalithic site called Puma Punku in Bolivia has not been adequately explained by scholars, and certainly not by archaeologists. Though it is claimed that this place was constructed by a ...

Two researchers discuss how ancient DNA is used to track how people moved and lived during Britain's bronze age.

According to a new study, any alien civilizations out there? Probably short-lived — and doomed to fail spectacularly. For ...

More than 4,000 years before modern highways and petroleum refineries, Sumerians in ancient Mesopotamia were engineering materials in ways that closely resemble advanced asphalt technology, according ...

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Old beliefs about early human behavior in East Asia are being challenged by the discovery of a richly-layered archaeological site located in central China. The excavation project at Xigou, led by the ...

Hidden for two millennia beneath the Mediterranean Sea, a corroded bronze device recovered from a Greek shipwreck has forced historians to rewrite the story of ancient technology. The Antikythera ...

A digging stick and a tiny tool of unknown purpose are among the oldest handheld wooden tools ever found. The objects, from 430,000 years ago, indicate early human ancestors were using wood for tools, ...