It's easy to think of the evolution of technology as a linear process, starting from the most primitive simple machines and ...

A love note, a gladiatorial combat scene, a barrage of insults and everyday confessions have emerged on a wall in Pompeii, ...

An expedition off the coast of Massachusetts has confirmed the existence of a freshwater reservoir beneath the seafloor. Now, ...

Handprints on the walls of Indonesian caves may be the oldest rock art studied so far, dating back at least 67,800 years ...

Advanced technology uncovers ancient graffiti, including love notes and sketches, offering fresh insights into daily life in ...

Altogether, they reconstructed 11 ancient herpesvirus genomes. The oldest came from a young girl found in southern Italy who ...

New chemical analysis of quartz microliths from South Africa confirms that humans were skilled with poison long ago.

Discover evidence of ancient hominins coexisting with early humans in Indonesia 200,000 years ago. A groundbreaking find for ...

The “Trees, Time and Technology” show opening next week at the di Rosa center weaves together history, feminism, Judaica and ...

Archaeologists have discovered 79 previously unseen pieces of graffiti scratched into the walls of an alley in Pompeii that ...

A rapid climate collapse during the Late Ordovician Mass Extinction devastated ocean life and reshuffled Earth’s ecosystems.