Frank Herbert’s Dune popularized windtraps as devices that harvest moisture from desert air, but real ancient Iran developed ...

On Native American Heritage Day, we examine a long-overlooked marvel of ancient engineering that had been tucked away beneath ...

Learn which engineering branch is known as the oldest engineering discipline. Learn about its history, its significance, the ...

Pompeii Archeological Park site map, with showing where the ancient building site is located, with colour coded piles of raw construction materials (right): purple: debris; green: piles of dry ...

The Temple of Bastet reveals the precision and ingenuity of ancient Egyptian engineers, from its structural design to its ...

Olive oil is the Swiss army knife of foodstuffs. It can dress salads, sauté vegetables, even grease squeaky hinges. And for ...

Scientists excavating the ruins of Pompeii have discovered a construction site left frozen in time by the eruption of Italy's ...

Scientists have uncovered how ancient Easter Islanders moved massive moai statues. Instead of dragging them flat, the statues ...

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 ...

The three-year excavation brought to the surface an old settlement at the historic center of Třebíč, a town in the Vysočina ...

A picture of a crystalline dinosaur egg fossil at Qinglong Mountain in Shiyan, Hubei province, has been selected for Chemical ...

On Monday 8 December, archaeologists discovered the wreck of a 2,000-year-old ancient Egyptian pleasure boat off the coast of ...