A recent study has revealed that Neolithic builders at the Motza site near Jerusalem mastered a highly complex plaster production technique nearly 8,000 years before the Romans. The discovery of ...

The dusty remnants of ancient civilizations hold secrets that would astound even today’s most brilliant engineers and scientists. Scattered across archaeological sites worldwide lie the fragments of ...

The walls of a corridor that once linked two theatres in the ancient Roman city of Pompeii hold hundreds of inscriptions made ...

Would you be surprised to learn that the technology we use to make modern concrete was invented 12,000 years ago? Have you ever wondered how humans first transformed rocks to iron, or how ancient ...

Throughout human history, our ancestors achieved remarkable feats of engineering, artistry, and scientific understanding that continue to baffle modern researchers. While we often assume that ...

On Wednesday, Nov. 5, University of Massachusetts classics lecturer Joseph Wilson took the students in his course, Technology in the Ancient World, to the glassblowing laboratory of Sally Prasch. The ...

Archaeologists have confirmed a “remarkable” 2,200-year-old discovery resting just 13 feet below the surface of the Adriatic Sea, on the Croatian island of Ilovik, per a recently published study in ...

Dr. Alfred Pawlik showcases early stone tool artifacts, detailing archaeological evidence of the seafaring and hunting strategies used by the early inhabitants hundreds of thousands of years ago to ...

ROME (AP) — One of the best-preserved ancient Roman homes on the Palatine Hill is opening to the public for the first time, albeit via a livestreamed tour of its hard-to-reach underground frescoes and ...