A newly discovered altar buried near the center of the ancient Maya city of Tikal is providing fresh insight into the ...

THE Tanzania Rural and Urban Roads Agency (TARURA) has emphasised the advantages of adopting stone technology in bridge and roads construction citing its cost-effectiveness and durability. Speaking in ...

Until now, the earliest known ivory artifacts came from the Upper Paleolithic, between 50,000 and 10,000 years ago. A few ...

Archaeologists uncovered 11,000-year-old pottery in Mongolia, pushing back the timeline of human innovation by nearly 2,000 ...

During the Great Depression, Franklin Roosevelt created a tree army. Civilians planted trees, built dams, and transformed ...

An ancient village church in Ashfield is finally hoping to remove a historic but cumbersome door that many visitors find ...

A surprising archaeological discovery in southwest China is shaking up what scientists thought they knew about ancient humans ...

Fantasy fans bitterly joked that they were seeing actual dire wolves — which featured prominently in HBO’s Game of Thrones ...

Now the ancient Stone of Destiny, a sacred 150kg lump of sandstone, which is venerated by Scottish nationalists and UK unionists alike as the seat upon which monarchs are crowned, is at the centre ...

Over three years, they unearthed multiple stone fragments—pieces that, after careful reconstruction, turned out to belong to a single ancient runestone. The stone had been shattered and reused ...

Digitising this ancient language largely relies on scanning old books and manuscripts and employing optical character recognition (OCR) technology, which frequently misinterprets the intricate scripts ...