When you think about archaeology, space technology probably isn’t the first thing that comes to mind. But from satellites to ...

New research uses tiny mineral clues to show people moved Stonehenge stones, not glaciers, changing how we view ancient engineering.

A major debate over the construction of the mysterious Neolithic Stonehenge site in the UK may finally have been resolved.

Think ancient civilizations were primitive? The evidence suggests otherwise.From computers that tracked celestial events to ...

A deep look at the most graffiti-filled corridor in all of Pompeii revealed 79 new inscriptions from over 2,000 years ago, ...

Arms technology is one of the driving forces behind warfare. While there was a period where most of humanity was ...

How do cutting-edge science and technology respond to ethical and legal issues when incorporated into society? These issues ...

Archaeologists from University College London and the Natural History Museum suggest the findings offer insights into the cognitive abilities of early human ancestors.

The project, described by Pompeii officials as Bruits de couloir (“corridor whispers”), used Reflectance Transformation Imaging (RTI), a computational photography technique that photographs a surface ...

Ancient messages and drawings are among hundreds of inscriptions that archaeologists recently uncovered on a wall in Pompeii.

For as long as humans have buried their dead, they've dreamed of keeping them close. The ancient Fayum portraits—those ...