A deep look at the most graffiti-filled corridor in all of Pompeii revealed 79 new inscriptions from over 2,000 years ago, ...

“Our results push back the association of T. pallidum with humans by thousands of years, possibly more than 10,000 years ago ...

Mars may have been a "blue planet" with an ocean the size of today's Arctic Ocean, a new study suggests. New evidence of ...

Arms technology is one of the driving forces behind warfare. While there was a period where most of humanity was ...

The machine generated at the SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory in Menlo Park can looking deeply into a piece of parchment, ...

Using advanced imaging technology, experts have captured hundreds of pieces of graffiti, dozens of which were previously ...

Archaeologists from University College London and the Natural History Museum suggest the findings offer insights into the cognitive abilities of early human ancestors.

The project, described by Pompeii officials as Bruits de couloir (“corridor whispers”), used Reflectance Transformation Imaging (RTI), a computational photography technique that photographs a surface ...

Ancient wind catchers, developed over 5,000 years ago in the Middle East, formed the basis of modern passive cooling systems.

Ancient messages and drawings are among hundreds of inscriptions that archaeologists recently uncovered on a wall in Pompeii.

The Roman Empire is usually remembered for roads, armies, and emperors, but its technology went far beyond that. Ancient ...