"This technology is the key that opens new rooms of the ancient world," said Gabriel Zuchtriegel, director of the vast ...

Hubble’s ultraviolet survey of 48 globular clusters shows blue straggler stars form mainly through interactions with ...

Scenes of battle and words of romantic passion were scratched over 2,000 years ago onto a corridor wall outside of a theater.

“Our results push back the association of T. pallidum with humans by thousands of years, possibly more than 10,000 years ago ...

Astronomers in Japan have discovered a supermassive black hole growing at impossible speed, breaking the cosmic Eddington ...

Arms technology is one of the driving forces behind warfare. While there was a period where most of humanity was ...

Long thought to have walked bipedally, like us, Australia’s extinct giant kangaroos have features that indicate they could ...

The construction of the Great Pyramid in Egypt has long remained a mystery to archaeologists, because ancient texts did not ...

Miniature models of ancient Chinese building assembled from mortise-and-tenon toy building blocks, designed by Wanfeng Chinese Ancient Architecture Building Blocks. Photo: Courtesy of Liu Wenhui ...

Scribblings analysed using state-of the art technology have brought new insight into the daily life and emotions of people who lived in the ancient city ...

A MAJOR mystery surrounding Stonehenge’s origin has finally been solved. For centuries there have been all sorts of theories about how the giant rocks got there, from medieval myths linking ...

The machine generated at the SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory in Menlo Park can looking deeply into a piece of parchment, ...