A slab of limestone excavated in 1984 from the ancient Coriovallum settlement in the Netherlands presented a puzzle for researchers of Roman history. Because of its distinct grooves and marks, the ...

With artificial intelligence (AI) as an essential tool, San Diego State University researchers have discovered surprising similarities among ancient writing systems from Africa and the Caucasus region ...

Archaeologists from the University of Warsaw uncover a massive ancient shipwreck and submerged port infrastructure in Libya.

Often, when we think about antiquity and ancient military technologies, we fall into the usual view of ancient warfare. You ...

Scientists used the quipu’s data to build working spreadsheets, file systems, and encryption tools, rivaling conventional ...

The Antikythera computer captured the ancient Greek passion for mathematics, and especially geometry, and science.

The inky wretch never teased me about anything, but he did think it was funny when I decided to read the Bible straight through. "It's not Jane Austen," he told me.

A marble fragment from Athens' Acropolis was uncovered in the wreckage of Lord Elgin's ship, the Mentor, shedding new light ...

History has a strange habit of forgetting its own brilliance. Civilizations rose, fell, and took entire libraries of ...

The newly recovered 1000-year-old page from the Archimedes palimpsest. Credit: Blois, Musée des Beaux-Arts / IRHT-CNRS. For ...

A new study shows how humans moved across the landscapes of ancient Greece, shaped by slope, visibility, and rugged terrain.