Egyptologist Zahi Hawass asserted that many of the claims circulating about the pyramids and mentioned in certain books are ...
Heron of Alexandria was an important ancient Greek inventor of mechanical devices whose inventions included the first steam ...
World’s Oldest Bridge, listed in the Guinness Book of Records, is still in use. It is a slab-stone, single-arch bridge over ...
New research suggests the Romans used a method known as "hot mixing" to produce self-healing concrete, which allowed them to ...
Fresh excavations in Pompeii have turned a buried construction workshop into a working laboratory, revealing how Roman ...
Unearthed off the coast of Alexandria, the vessel may have once measured 115 feet long. Experts think it would have held a "luxuriously decorated cabin" and a team of 20 rowers ...
Archeologists say they have finally cracked the 6,000-year-old mystery of Armenia’s “dragon stones" – massive carved ...
More than 2,000 years ago, Greek artisans built a compact machine of interlocking gears that could track the heavens with a ...
China's use of rammed earth to make loess platforms with wooden structures on top, evolved from the Loess Plateau and ...
Satellite images from Sentinel-5P and Meteosat-12 captured the ash plume spreading across the region.ESA Earth Observation/X The Hayli Gubbi volcano in Ethiopia erupted explosively on Sunday, November ...
A groundbreaking materials study has finally unveiled the secret behind the exceptional durability of the Temple of Venus, revealing how Roman engineers deliberately used volcanic materials to create ...
Excerpted from Dinner with King Tut: How Rogue Archaeologists Are Re-creating the Sights, Sounds, Smells, and Tastes of Lost Civilizations by Sam Kean. Copyright ...