On an Egyptian desert rock ridge west of Alexandria and between the Mediterranean sea and Lake Mariout is Kom el-Nugus, an ...

When Giovanni Torlonia and his son Alessandro were building the collection, it was common practice to repair ancient statuary ...

And what’s more, the people of ancient Troy knew it too. A new archaeological study has found physical and chemical evidence ...

Discovered in the ruins of Tikal, the altar sheds light on strained relations between the Maya city and Teotihuacán—which was located more than 600 miles away ...

In a preprint paper, scientists concluded that the Step Pyramid of Djoser in Saqqara, Egypt—believed to be the oldest of the ...

Visitors are shown signature painted pottery vessels from the Minoan civilization in the Shenwumen Gallery of the Palace Museum in Beijing on Monday.[Photo provided by Jiang Dong/China Daily] A ...

The structure echoes ancient Athenian architecture without imitating ... along with plaster replicas of the Elgin Marbles. In a design masterstroke, the glass-enclosed top floor is turned at ...

Greece's Delphi oracle is the inspiration behind an immersive art installation by data artist Charles Sandison that's aimed ...

April 14, 2025 • Did you know there's an insect that can fling its pee 40 times faster than a cheetah accelerates? We did — thanks to a comic from the Bhamla Lab at the Georgia Institute of ...

Primarily, the compass was used for geomancy for a long time before it was used for navigation Ancient Chinese alchemists realized that the magnetite ore would point towards a magnetic north. Their ...

It took Andrew Carol 30 days to build a working model of the Antikythera Mechanism—the ancient Greek world's most ...