From ancient technologies that rival modern innovations to peculiar objects shrouded in mystery, these artifacts continue to challenge what we know about the past. The post 15 Fascinating Ancient ...

Across history, ancient civilizations crafted prototypes for many of the modern mechanisms that have become integral to ...

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When a massive tree toppled in the floodplains of Fonte Boa, a region in the Brazilian Amazon, local fishermen noticed ...

When and where the earliest modern human populations migrated and settled in East Asia is relatively well known. However, how ...

Archaeologists recently uncovered “sensational” artifacts beneath a historic monastery in Poland — offering a glimpse into ...

The new images by the Curiosity rover on Mars show "dramatic evidence" of ancient groundwater in crisscrossing low ridges, ...

A collection of artifacts that use WSU’s Egyptian Blue recipe are now on display in Pittsburgh’s Carnegie Museum’s “The Stories We Keep Collection: Conserving Objects from Ancient Egypt ...

While still a graduate student at Johns Hopkins University, UC Santa Cruz professor Elaine Sullivan unearthed ancient artifacts in Syria marked with the oldest known alphabetic symbols.