A groundbreaking study reveals a hidden system beneath Egypt’s oldest pyramid—suggesting ancient engineers used a forgotten ...

Learn which engineering branch is known as the oldest engineering discipline. Learn about its history, its significance, the ...

The fall of the world’s earliest cities has long looked like a riddle of vanished peoples and abandoned streets. A growing ...

In Mesopotamia, Egypt and the Indus valley, the first urban settlements were built around irrigated farmland. Flooded terrace fields for rice, corn and quinoa accompanied the spread of civilization in ...

Cape Town and Chennai in recent years endured punishing droughts. Similar conditions afflicted Bengaluru and Hyderabad last ...

The sinking of Tehran – figurative and literal – could trigger migration and instability far beyond the country's borders ...

Tehran’s water crisis shows how climate change and poor water management can push even large cities toward “day zero”. Indian ...

Excavations show Christians and Zoroastrians coexisted in 5th-century Mesopotamia, revealed through early architecture at ...

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

Hebrew University researchers uncovered 8,000-year-old pottery showing floral patterns built on precise geometric ...

Archeologists say they have finally cracked the 6,000-year-old mystery of Armenia’s “dragon stones" – massive carved ...

It starts with a slight scratchiness at the back of your throat. Then, a sneeze. Then coughing, sniffling and full-on congestion, with or without fever, for a few insufferable days. Viral upper ...