Using chemistry, archival records and AI, scientists are reviving the aromas of old libraries, mummies and battlefields ...
This prehistoric piece of alder found at the Marathousa 1 archaeological site in Greece might be the earliest wooden tool ...
It took nearly six months (and 1,600 hot glue gun sticks) for 80 autistic schoolkids to recreate the massive Army computer, ...
Thousands of years before the invention of compasses or sails, prehistoric peoples crossed oceans to reach remote lands like ...
What’s particularly exciting about finds like this is that we just so rarely have wood preserved for that long,” the study’s ...
Zahi Hawass recounts his rise in the new documentary The Man With the Hat, gracefully sidestepping the controversies that ...
Researchers found the only known surviving copy of Unix Version 4 on magnetic tape, a key milestone in the evolution of ...
One of Israel’s leading archaeologists, he found evidence that the writing of the Old Testament likely began much earlier ...
Three researchers from the Faculty of Humanities, Communication and Documentation at the Carlos III University of Madrid ...
New research indicates that humans shaped their environments through hunting and controlled use of fire tens of thousands of years before agriculture emerged. According to the study’s co-authors, the ...
Archaeologists believe that the stylus was carved to resemble a herm, a type of sculpture in ancient Greece that was often placed at crossroads or in front of temples to ward off evil. Like the stylus ...
The world’s first computer long predates the monster machine of 1945. Like, by several thousand years.