A major claim in the older media cycle was that NASA removed the book and related materials. Whatever happened during the original wave of reporting, the current reality is clear: NASA now provides an ...

A child, hiker, or canoeist who picks up a single arrowhead is far more likely to encounter a teachable moment than criminal ...

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 ...

The 67,800-year-old hand stencil looks like a claw—and provides new clues about early human cognition and the migration to Australia.

To make relics like the emblem tangible again, Zhao has tried to transform intangible cultural heritage into calculable, composable and living "cultural genes", a concept she first raised in her PhD ...

Not every notable discovery consists of a single extraordinary artifact, a previously unknown structure, or a newly revised date for an ancient technology. Some of the most significant discoveries ...

The once-thriving city of Pompeii, near Naples, was buried in the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in AD 79, preserving buildings, ...

When the Indian Naval Sailing Vessel (INSV) Kaundinya set sail from Porbandar on its maiden overseas voyage, it carried a dual legacy: India's maritime past and a glimpse of its digital future.

An aerial photograph of Hala Sultan Tekke on Cyprus shows excavations of two of the city’s industrial quarters.(Courtesy Peter M. Fischer) More than 40 years ago, a Turkish sponge diver named Mehmet ...

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

While it shares features with modern humans, H. habilis also has traits that would have given it an advantage in climbing ...

Researchers from several European institutions, led by scientists from the University of Barcelona and the University of ...