Discover 25 times ancient engineering blew our minds! Explore incredible feats from pyramids to stepwells, showcasing ingenuity that defies explanation. Pr ...

A newly confirmed mass grave in ancient Jordan offers chilling insight into one of history’s first pandemics. Hundreds of ...

“These findings revise the view of the Cretaceous ocean as a world dominated only by large vertebrate predators,” study ...

In 2015, a team of geneticists cracked open the genomes of 69 ancient Europeans and found something that upended centuries of ...

Stephen has degrees in science (Physics major) and arts (English Literature and the History and Philosophy of Science), as well as a Graduate Diploma in Science Communication. Stephen has degrees in ...

Depictions of dogs in Maya art and archaeological finds point to a variety of possible roles in the ancient culture.

Ancient Romans had a big appetite for a certain kind of fish sauce – and a new study is revealing exactly what went into it. Researcher Gonçalo Themudo published his findings in the journal Antiquity ...

New research suggests giant octopuses up to 19 metres long may have ruled ancient oceans 100 million years ago, challenging ...

Ancient scientists can be easy to dismiss. Greek philosopher Thales of Miletus, often described as the West’s first scientist, believed the whole Earth was suspended on water. Roman encyclopaedist ...

Researchers have recreated the world's oldest synthetic pigment, called Egyptian blue, which was used in ancient Egypt about 5,000 years ago. A team of Washington State University-led researchers has ...

Archaeologists in Turkey recently uncovered over 60 ancient tombs in Colossae, a biblical city immortalized in the New Testament. The discoveries were reported by Anadolu Agency (AA), a state-run ...

Recently uncovered damage to walls in Pompeii displays patterns that may have been made by an ancient “machine gun” called a ...