Some believe the "Babylon Battery" is an ancient device capable of generating electricity—centuries before modern batteries ...

Ancient Greek inventions included remarkable automata and the Antikythera Mechanism, but many of their engineers' innovations ...

Ancient Lost Worlds and Hidden History. On location videos made by author and adventurer Brien Foerster exploring Peru, ...

Archaeologists have uncovered a 34,000-year-old mystery that's rewriting our understanding of early human behavior, and our ...

Potential signs of microbial life were found in a rock sample collected by the rover in 2024 from an ancient dry riverbed on ...

Hundreds of stone tools discovered in Kenya have revealed that human relatives traveled long distances to find raw material.

(CN) — Step aside, Bob the Builder — ancient human relatives have been collecting stone materials to build personal toolkits for as long as 2.6 million years, scientists said Friday. Known ...

For decades, scientists have debated when our ancestors first mastered the bow and arrow, a skill that transformed hunting, ...

The settlement roughly dates back to the transition from the Neolithic period to the Bronze Age. Researchers used noninvasive methods to image the sites, launching drones equipped with LiDAR to ...

Learn how an ancient lizard ancestor’s unique physical characteristics have shocked paleontologists.

An international team led by researchers at the Center for Paleogenetics, has uncovered microbial DNA preserved in woolly and ...

The application of computational techniques can decipher palimpsests: manuscripts where the original text was removed to make ...