More than 2,000 years ago, Greek artisans built a compact machine of interlocking gears that could track the heavens with a ...

Archaeologists are to resume digging at the Ness of Brodgar on Orkney after 3D radar technology led to an "extraordinary ...

The area around Boeslunde had already yielded 10 gold oath rings and approximately 2,200 gold spirals in previous excavations. Museum director and archaeologist Lone Claudi-Hansen explained their ...

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 ...

The groundbreaking discovery points to the possibility of past life on Mars. A 3.5-billion-year old rock discovered on the Red Planet is "the closest we've come to discovering ancient life on Mars," ...

Ancient stone tools found on Sulawesi, an island in Indonesia, raises huge questions about early hominins ability to sail ...