Our understanding of ancient Egyptian technology has evolved thanks to experts reevaluating a small metal object. Researchers from Newcastle University and the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna have had ...

For more than a century, one of history’s greatest technological mysteries sat hidden beneath the sea. When historians began studying a strange collection of corroded bronze gears recovered from an ...

Over the past 50,000 years, many of the world’s large mammals have gone extinct. Until recent decades, all we knew about them came from fossils. Now, analysis of ancient DNA is adding to the picture.