The world's oldest biological experiment, dating back 2,000 years, has been discovered in Laos, revealing how trees affect ...

The ostraca, some dating back to the time just before Cleopatra, were discovered within the ancient ruins of Athribus ...

The Antikythera computer captured the ancient Greek passion for mathematics, and especially geometry, and science.

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Paintings from ancient Egypt show the harvesting of grapes and the making of wine. Mesopotamian murals illustrate elites rai ...

An archaeologist claims to have uncovered clues of an ancient city that once thrived off the coast of Louisiana 12,000 years ...

A team of scientists re-created the way Neandertals made birch tar and found its antibacterial properties could fight off ...

Earth’s Ediacaran Period, which lasted from about 630 to 540 million years ago, has long puzzled scientists studying the ...

Scientists have uncovered a new species of rhinoceros in the Canadian High Arctic, revealing that rhinos once lived far ...

The droppings contain DNA, he thought, and perhaps, even after rain washes them away, some DNA might remain. And if it does ...

The structure’s south entrance will be put to use for the first time in more than a century, just in time for the Obama ...

Israel’s archaeologists are harnessing artificial intelligence, cloud computing, and cutting-edge science to transform how ...