Discover 25 modern inventions that are really ancient! From concrete to batteries, explore how ancient civilizations ...

Ancient Egypt tech reveals how the Great Pyramids were actually built ...

Humanity is still evolving – and the genetic adaptability that allows us to thrive around the world today may have also ...

On a trip along the Silk Road, columnist Annalee Newitz discovers that ancient technology can offer us a framework for our own advances. The most important drivers of technology aren’t inventions or ...

Communities living in Colombia thousands of years ago achieved an engineering wonder of the world based on cooperation among family groups without top-down government, a new study shows.

The southwest of the Amazon rain forest has long been regarded as a pristine wilderness, undisturbed by large scale human ...

In recent years, Shanxi has steadily pushed forward digital exhibition and communication programs for ancient architectural ...

In the second century BC, the Antikythera Mechanism astounded ancient astronomers with its ability to imitate the Moon's ...

For generations, working with ancient Chinese texts has been a painstaking task. Specialists would spend years deciphering unfamiliar characters, copying manuscripts by hand, adding punctuation to ...

The rock sitting atop the world’s tallest mountain is loaded with ancient sea creature fossils — which some are now claiming ...

Early farmers achieved an “engineering wonder of the world” by building a giant irrigation system in South America thousands of years ago. Communities living in what is now Colombia created the ...

Italian spear fisherman and diver Giacomo De Mola couldn’t believe his eyes when what he thought was an underwater rock turned out to be the wreck of a 2,000-year-old Roman transport vessel off the ...