Drilling two meters deep for sampling will be a world first,” said Hou Zengqian, China’s chief scientist on the Tianwen-3 ...

Ġgantija Temples, Malta Somewhere around 3600 B.C. the ancient temples of Ġgantija were built on Gozo Island in Malta, among the oldest Neolithic structures in the world.

A new exhibition in London (open until February 2026) called Thirst: In search of freshwater highlights how civilizations ...

NASA's Perseverance rover is digging deeper into Mars' geologic past as it begins grinding into rock surfaces to expose ...

Scientists uncovered ancient avocado remains in a Honduran cave, offering genetic clues that could protect the crop from ...

Baobab trees may be a proxy for measuring long-term use of land by humans. They live long, have economic benefits, and are ...

The mystery deepened in the 1970s when a team of scientists entered the tomb of Polish king Casimir IV. Within weeks, 10 out ...

Wonders of the ancient world : antiquity's greatest feats of design and engineering by Pollard, Justin, 1968- Publication date 2011 Topics Archaeology, Antiquities, Technology and civilization, ...

While modern soldiers may not adopt the testudo formation as the legions of old did, many Roman innovations did lead to ...

Excavations on unpromising mounds in the Iraqi desert revealed Sumer’s earliest city. Surviving relics and a rebuilt temple have given experts more clues about the ancient metropolis of Eridu.

Ctesibius was a pioneering inventor of ancient Greece whose work in pneumatics and hydraulics shaped technologies still in ...