Concrete was the foundation of the ancient Roman empire. It enabled Rome's storied architectural revolution as well as the ...

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

Sahura sits amongst the Abusir complex, a popular burial site near the Nile River for pharaohs of the Fifth Dynasty of ...

Across the globe, a race is under way to crack some of the last mysterious forms of writing that have never been translated.

Making fire on demand was a milestone in the lives of our early ancestors. But the question of when that skill first arose ...

People often appreciate fossils for the insights they reveal about ancient creatures that once roamed the Earth. At some ...

Scientists excavating the ruins of Pompeii have discovered a construction site left frozen in time by the eruption of Italy's ...

From the iconic Colosseum in Rome to Hadrian’s Wall all the way in England, there’s one question most people must ask ...

In a Caribbean cave, researchers discovered hundreds of fossils with bee nests within them. It is the first time this behavior has been recorded, a new study finds.

About 2,400 years ago, before the emergence of the Roman empire, a small armada of boats approached the island of Als off the ...

New research suggests the Romans used a method known as "hot mixing" to produce self-healing concrete, which allowed them to ...

After more than a century of speculation, researchers have traced the likely origins of the legendary Hjortspring boat through chemical analysis of its construction materials and the discovery of an ...