The ancient Romans were masters of building and engineering, perhaps most famously represented by the aqueducts. Those ...

The Serapeum holds massive stone boxes that display signs of advanced machining, raising questions about the technology used by ancient Egyptians.

Scientists used DNA testing on 1,200-year-old feces to detect E. coli, pinworms, and Giardia in ancient Mexico, and found ...

An ancient elk gazes into the distance from the steep shoreline cliff of Lake Yövesi. The autumn day is sunny, but very windy ...

At the Tayma Oasis in Saudi Arabia stands a rock split with uncanny precision—so sharp it looks like it was sliced by a laser ...

Hidden deep in ancient rocks, scientists have found the surviving traces of Earth’s first form—unchanged for 4.5 billion ...

Astronomer Avi Loeb suggests that a quasi-satellite may be the "relic of an interplanetary mission by humanity from the 1960s ...

Trump's border security strategy uses modern technology similar to Roman wall tactics, with smart barriers planned for Texas, California and Arizona.

The first scientific evidence of the Black Death in Edinburgh has been discovered on the remains of a teenage boy who died in ...

The mountain’s name means “the place where exchanges/trades/barters are made to produce/manipulate water,” and surveys conducted in the 1960s of the mountain’s summit found temple platforms, mounds ...

Near the end of his reign, French emperor Napoleon Bonaparte led an army of over half a million men in an invasion of Russia ...

Near the Fanshan king's mausoleum, where the largest jade cong of the ­Liangzhu Culture, a testimony to the existence of Chinese civilization at least 5,000 years ago, was once discovered, Chinese ...