Archaeologists have long known that complex societies can unravel with startling speed, but a growing body of evidence ...

Washington, DC— Pairing cutting-edge chemistry with artificial intelligence, a multidisciplinary team of scientists found ...

Archaeologists have long known that complex societies can rise, flourish and then disappear so completely that only scattered ...

Aerial view of the temple of Venus located in the archaeological park of Baia, a hamlet of Bacoli, in the metropolitan city of Naples, in Campania, Italy. It was an octagonal thermal building, with ...

Teasing out biochemical information from ancient organic-rich sediments, notably the timing of the emergence of ...

WASHINGTON – Ancient Greece produced the earliest records of democracy, western philosophy — and, it turns out, lead pollution. Researchers studying sediment cores recovered from mainland Greece and ...

Scientists have developed a new way to hunt for hidden signals of past life, and say it could assist in the search for ...

The signs of wave ripples in the sandy shores of ancient lake beds, created as wind pushed water back and forth have been found on Mars providing evidence that there were open bodies of water, not ...

Public Works is replacing four 45-year-old “giant screws” – aka the “Archimedes screw” – that carry sewage over 30 feet ...

South African rocks dating back 3.3 billion years have revealed chemical evidence of ancient organisms, giving scientists a ...

Pairing cutting-edge chemistry with artificial intelligence, a multidisciplinary team of scientists today published fresh ...