History is often taught as if progress moves in a straight line—from ancient Greece to Rome, from medieval Europe to the Renaissance, from industrialization to modernity. Africa, in this telling, ...

Look high above the southern horizon at sunset on Jan. 25 to find the moon with its right half illuminated by direct sunlight ...

A major debate over the construction of the mysterious Neolithic Stonehenge site in the UK may finally have been resolved.

Scenes of battle and words of romantic passion were scratched over 2,000 years ago onto a corridor wall outside of a theater.

Arms technology is one of the driving forces behind warfare. While there was a period where most of humanity was ...

How do cutting-edge science and technology respond to ethical and legal issues when incorporated into society? These issues ...

The 67,800-year-old hand stencil looks like a claw—and provides new clues about early human cognition and the migration to ...

The project, described by Pompeii officials as Bruits de couloir (“corridor whispers”), used Reflectance Transformation Imaging (RTI), a computational photography technique that photographs a surface ...

Ancient wind catchers, developed over 5,000 years ago in the Middle East, formed the basis of modern passive cooling systems.

Ancient messages and drawings are among hundreds of inscriptions that archaeologists recently uncovered on a wall in Pompeii.

For as long as humans have buried their dead, they've dreamed of keeping them close. The ancient Fayum portraits—those ...