The copper and leather device represents the first evidence of mechanical tools from Egypt’s pre-Pharaonic history.

There's something profoundly captivating about the phrase "lost to time." Throughout history, countless treasures, cities, ...

An ancient Pompeii wall at a newly excavated site, where Associate Professor Admir Masic applied compositional analysis (overlayed to right) to understand how ancient Romans made concrete that has ...

Examination of an ancient alabaster vase in the Yale Peabody Museum’s Babylonian Collection has revealed traces of opiates, providing the clearest evidence to date of broad opium use in ancient ...

Archaeologists recently unearthed the remains of ancient Roman marching camps in Saxony-Anhalt — a first for one of Eastern Germany's larger states. The discovery was announced by the State Office for ...