The Antikythera Mechanism wasn’t decoration — it was a precision machine built to predict eclipses, planetary movements, and celestial cycles with shocking accuracy. It used gears so advanced that ...

George Washington University archaeologist David Braun and his colleagues recently unearthed stone tools from a 2.75 ...

New evidence is emerging in Kenya of early humans crafting stone tools for nearly 300,000 years during the Pliocene, despite ...

Before 2.75 million years ago, the Namorotukunan area featured lush wetlands with abundant palms and sedges, with mean annual precipitation reaching approximately 855 millimeters per year. However, ...

In a study published in the Journal of Coastal and Island Archaeology, Dr. Thomas Leppard and his colleagues, John Cherry and ...

Long before the first sparks of civilization — or even humanity as we know it — our ancestors were already inventors. On the ...

A groundbreaking new device uses electromagnetic levitation to help researchers gently sort living cells, with no need for ...

The integrity of a 4,000-year-old burial ground will be protected as part of the development of the East West Rail line. The site on Money Hill, between Haslingfield and Barrington in Cambridgeshire, ...

In a 1970 National Geographic feature, paleoanthropologist Richard Leakey—son of Louis and Mary Leakey—recounted his discovery of a nearly complete Australopithecus boisei skull (now Paranthropus ...

Ancient gravestone Santoro had found the unusual marble tablet beneath the undergrowth in the backyard of her "shotgun" house in the city's historic Carrollton neighborhood. The stone is about 12 ...

The Serapeum holds massive stone boxes that display signs of advanced machining, raising questions about the technology used by ancient Egyptians. Cargo Theft Hits Record Levels Amid Tariffs Rand Paul ...