Workers digging for a new road near Perth, Scotland, uncovered a 2,500-year-old underground stone chamber that ancient people ...

The debate goes back to the 1950s. “I’ve seen the argument raging my entire career,” says 71-year-old James Kasting, a geoscientist at the Pennsylvania State University. The findings are a big deal, ...

New research suggests that the holes were the site of an ancient marketplace, and Inca rulers may have used them as a ...

Along the Old Silk Road – the ancient network of trade routes that once linked China and the West – is a complex of roughly 500 rock-cut caves carved into the cliffs above the Daquan River. The caves, ...

MIT researchers adapted X-ray CT scanning from the medical field to study slag waste produced as a byproduct of ancient copper smelting.

It brings them one step closer to understanding the mysteries of the Bashiri Mummy MODERN technology has helped shed further light on an Ancient Egyptian mystery after spending millennia under wraps.

Thanks to modern technology, we know more about the universe now than we have at any other point in history. Even though they didn't know much about it, ancient people were fascinated by the cosmos.

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You receive a message from an aunt you didn’t know you had about your inheritance – a mansion in London. But this creepy manor is abandoned, rundown and haunted. With the help of a strange object that ...

LONDON—Our fascination with mummies never gets old. Now the British Museum is using the latest technology to unwrap their ancient mysteries. Scientists at the museum have used CT scans and ...