Highly Detailed Models of Historic Sites and Scientific Data Scales from Classroom to Virtual Labs to Fully Immersive ...

“Thanks to current technology and using LiDAR scans I was able to obtain a faithful image of an almost 5000-year-old fortification .” Vasile Diaconu—an archaeologist on the study—said in a translated ...

A small metal object discovered more than a century ago is changing what scientists know about ancient Egyptian technology. Researchers from Newcastle University and the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna ...

The Valentine’s Day holiday replaced the ancient Roman pagan festival of Lupercalia, which was held annually in mid-February and originated around the 6th century B.C.

The conservation value of de-extinction lies not in populating landscapes with proxy extinct animals, but in developing ...

Discovered in a Mediterranean shipwreck in 1901, the Antikythera Mechanism stunned historians with its intricate system of interlocking bronze gears dating back to around 100 BC. X-ray imaging later ...

Egyptian craftspeople mastered reliable rotary drilling more than two millennia before some of the best-preserved drill sets.” ...

Researchers have identified what may be the earliest known metal drill from ancient Egypt—and it was hidden in plain sight.

Sixty thousand years ago, humans in southern Africa were already mastering nature’s chemistry. Scientists have discovered ...

Deep within a cave on New Zealand’s North Island, scientists have uncovered a long-lost record of life from a million years ago.

Using advanced machine learning and climate models, researchers have shown that the ancestors of crops like wheat, barley, ...

A long-lost 5,300-year-old artifact from ancient Egypt has just been rediscovered, and it’s far more advanced than anything historians expected.