Japanese astronomers have discovered an extraordinary supermassive black hole in the early universe that ...

Beneath the Lahun pyramid sits a granite chamber containing what may be the most precisely made granite object ever found in Egypt. Flinders Petrie measured this box and described mechanical level ...

From roads to buildings to water systems, some ancient technologies were just too good to abandon. This video showcases the most impressive ancient engineering feats that we’ve continued to use or ...

Ancient Rhodes was not merely an island; it was a sophisticated maritime power that defined the Hellenistic world.

A roughly 500,000-year-old elephant bone hammer has been discovered in Boxgrove, England. This find ...

A barn for ducks was built on part of an ancient woodland and in a protected area without the right permission from the local ...

Ask people how Stonehenge was built and you'll hear stories of sledges, ropes, boats and sheer human determination to haul ...

Traces of color preserved in the stone are changing how historians understand what was lost when Alexander burned Persepolis.

The world’s first robot operated in Ancient Greece—the automatic maid was the name of a technological miracle during the ...

Tabloids have seized on the most headline-friendly takeaway - “pulleys built the pyramid” - but the underlying claim is more specific: the pyramid may have grown “inside-out,” using internal sloped ...

The 450-foot bluff is famous for steep scrambles, but rangers still warn that climbing down is quick while getting back up ...

Michigan rewards curiosity, especially when you leave the high-traffic tourist stops behind and wander toward the places ...