Whatever you’re tucking into this festive season, chances are you didn’t have to kill it yourself or forage it from the wild. For that, you can thank your ancestors who, starting around 10,000 years ...

MIT researchers analyzed an ancient Pompeii construction site to determine how the ancient Romans produced concrete that ...

80-million-year-old fossils revealed that this dyrosaurid species began to diversify millions of years earlier than previously thought, starting with evolutionary changes in its bite.

The Unfinished Obelisk in Aswan was meant to be the largest ever carved by ancient Egypt—an enormous thousand-ton block of ...

The world’s first lock and key system was invented in ancient Egypt around 4000 BCE. Made of wood, it used simple pins and bolts to secure doors, a design that still influences modern locks today.

Long drought cycles reshaped settlement choices in the Indus region. These climate stresses likely contributed to its slow ...

Macomb County Public Works will continue to use 2,500-year-old technology to ensure residents in the St. Clair Shores area can continue to flush freely and avoid basement flooding and occasional nasty ...

Opium use may have been widespread in ancient Egyptian culture—including potentially among notable kings. Yale researchers found chemical traces of opiates in an ancient alabaster vase at the Peabody ...

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 ...

Federal authorities have recovered more than a dozen ancient Egyptian artifacts illegally smuggled into the United States and destined for private collectors, including a funerary statue valued at ...

A new study shows ink on 2,000-year-old Egyptian papyri fragments contains copper. This means the assumption that carbon was the only basis for ink to write on ancient papyri is now a thing of the ...

Egyptian blue, known in the scientific community as calcium copper silicate, has come to be recognized as a pioneering feat of human creativity. With origins speculated to precede 3000 BC, Egyptian ...