Some believe the "Babylon Battery" is an ancient device capable of generating electricity—centuries before modern batteries ...

Some of the world’s most enduring mysteries hail from the realm of ancient technology. From the towering pyramids of Egypt to the intricate Antikythera mechanism, these remarkable feats of engineering ...

Ancient Lost Worlds and Hidden History. On location videos made by author and adventurer Brien Foerster exploring Peru, ...

A group of scientists has sequenced the genome of a man who was buried in Egypt around 4,500 years ago. The study offers rare ...

At a site in northeastern Uzbekistan, archaeologists have uncovered tiny stone points that appear to be the oldest known ...

The application of computational techniques can decipher palimpsests: manuscripts where the original text was removed to make ...

Archaeologist Mordechai Ehrlich found the clay seal while examining material recovered by the Temple Mount Sifting Project, and project researchers rapidly analyzed and publicly announced the artifact ...

It's only fully modern humans who start this thing of venturing out on the ocean where you don't see land. Part of that is technology, of course; you have to have ships to do it. But there is also, I ...

As we learn more about how to measure ancient biomarkers, one thing is true: They are not a gimmick. They are a call to measure differently, to care differently and to lead differently.