History has a strange habit of forgetting its own brilliance. Civilizations rose, fell, and took entire libraries of ...

Ancient Iranian technology adapted desert life through windcatchers, qanat water systems, yakhchals for storing ice, and some ...

Cinema in Ancient Greece began with Philion and Heron, who crafted automated theaters, bringing stories to life through ...

The history of warfare stretches back thousands of years. One of the earliest recorded conflicts took place around 2700 B.C., ...

The JEC World exhibition provided an opportunity for Ignaas Verpoest and his co-editors Stepan Lomov, Yentl Swolfs and Mahoor Mehdikhani (KU Leuven, Belgium) to present their recently published book ...

Could ancient humans really have built the pyramids without extraterrestrial help? Or do such questions reveal more about ...

Debunking alien claims matters, but so does telling richer, more compelling stories about how humans shaped their own past.

Before Pompeii was engulfed in volcanic ash, its walls may have been battered by an ancient "machine gun" while the city was under siege. A study has uncovered compelling evidence that Roman forces ...

Ancient sewing needles helped humans survive freezing climates by enabling tailored clothing, while also serving many other uses.

To understand how we started counting, and still count today, 24 hours in a day, 60 minutes in an hour and 60 seconds in a minute, though, we need to wind the clock back to an era before the dawn of ...

Did you know what the longest wars in the history of the world are? Discover the 10 longest wars in history, from the ...

In some ways, it feels like the kind of thing I’ve been working on forever,” says Joshua Bennett of his new poetry book, “We ...