When rolled on a moist clay tablet, these engravings left low-relief markings, signifying that the object's owner authorized ...

The very first humans millions of years ago may have been inventors, according to a discovery in northwest Kenya. Researchers ...

One of the Mamluk-era tunnels carved into tufa rock at Nahal 'Amal, revealing the sophisticated hydraulic engineering that powered medieval sugar production. (Azriel Yechezkel / A. Frumkin et al., ...

Throughouthistory, disease has sparked both fear and innovation. Indeed, advances inmedicine and technology have helped ...

Simple in design yet flawless in function, those ancient lenses are regarded as the world's first sunglasses, millennia ahead ...