When we think of the world's oldest art, Europe usually comes to mind, with famous cave paintings in France and Spain often ...

A major debate over the construction of the mysterious Neolithic Stonehenge site in the UK may finally have been resolved.

Think ancient civilizations were primitive? The evidence suggests otherwise.From computers that tracked celestial events to ...

Research allows for the development of strategies to combat climate change, taking into account the hidden landscapes ...

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.

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Using advanced imaging technology, experts have captured hundreds of pieces of graffiti, dozens of which were previously ...

How do cutting-edge science and technology respond to ethical and legal issues when incorporated into society? These issues ...

Archaeologists from University College London and the Natural History Museum suggest the findings offer insights into the cognitive abilities of early human ancestors.

The project, described by Pompeii officials as Bruits de couloir (“corridor whispers”), used Reflectance Transformation Imaging (RTI), a computational photography technique that photographs a surface ...

Ancient messages and drawings are among hundreds of inscriptions that archaeologists recently uncovered on a wall in Pompeii.