Professor Kenichi Yano of Ritsumeikan University emphasized the discovery's unique significance: ...

Concrete was the foundation of the ancient Roman empire. It enabled Rome's storied architectural revolution as well as the ...

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A group of scientists are studying the Cyclades, an island group in Greece's Aegean Sea, looking for signs of early human ...

Ancient Mars once teemed with flowing rivers, forming vast drainage systems. A new study has mapped these large basins, ...

This video documented a two-week investigation across Egypt, from the Step Pyramid of Saqqara to the closed ruins of Abu Sir.

Ancient Chinese astronomers observed a solar eclipse in 709 BCE with remarkable detail. These old records are now helping ...

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

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The Indus Valley Civilization, now referred to as the Sindhu-Saraswati civilization by Indian historians, peaked between 5,000 and 3,500 years ago across modern-day northwest India and Pakistan. Their ...

The royal symbol on the newly discovered figurines solves a long-standing mystery by identifying who was buried in the ...

The pristine interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS is theorised to be covered in ice cryovolcanoes, challenging all models of comet ...