Frank Herbert’s Dune popularized windtraps as devices that harvest moisture from desert air, but real ancient Iran developed ...

Stonehenge has long fueled fringe claims about giants, giant skeletons, and even Tower of Babel origins. Modern believers ...

Archaeologists uncovered a Pompeii project that reveals how ancient Romans used hot-mixing technology to create durable self-healing concrete ...

Pompeii Archeological Park site map, with showing where the ancient building site is located, with colour coded piles of raw construction materials (right): purple: debris; green: piles of dry ...

Scientists excavating the ruins of Pompeii have discovered a construction site left frozen in time by the eruption of Italy's ...

As far as kitchen staples, you don’t really get much better than olive oil. It can do it all—jazz up a salad, sauté ...

Lime granules trapped in ancient walls show Romans relied on a reactive hot-mix method to making concrete that could now ...

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

Harvard's Avi Loeb suggests 3I/ATLAS is alien tech due to its anomalous jets. Shockingly, a 300 BC Chinese star map may have ...

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 ...