A new radiocarbon study has clarified the timing of the colossal Thera eruption, placing it before Egypt’s New Kingdom.

Clues from a digital reconstruction of a lavish ancient home are changing how researchers understand Pompeii’s elite.

The ancient world was probably filled with magicians using science only a few understood, but the works of one man have ...

The microbe Pyrodictium abyssi is an archaeon—a member of what's known as the third domain of life—and an extremophile. It ...

The Indus Valley civilization, located in present-day Pakistan and India, went through four periods of intense drought, which ...

An immense Bronze Age settlement has emerged from the Kazakh Steppe, revealing a surprisingly urban and industrial society ...

"Some of our ancestors were very skilled observers." A team of international researchers say they've uncovered new data on ...

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

Exploring ancient ruins is like stepping into a time machine. Some of these ruins make you wonder how in the world they were ...

Study finds Earth's ancient atmosphere may have produced essential sulfur biomolecules like cysteine, challenging theories on ...

The subject board is usually a two- or four-layer circuit board with 12/12 lines and spaces, and often is almost destroyed by whatever catastrophic failure occurred. The application is typically an ...

First Trust Water ETF offers exposure to companies addressing global water scarcity. Click here to read why FIW is rated a ...