As technology accelerates progress, a paradox emerges: digital nomadism is unraveling humanity back to its hunter-gatherer ...

Archaeologists have long treated Rome’s roads as a marvel of ancient engineering, but new digital mapping shows the network ...

Myths, Machines, and Ancient Dreams of Technology, explored ancient myths and folklore about creating automation, artificial life, and AI, connecting them to the robots and other ingenious mechanical ...

The ancient Romans are credited with building road networks, but a new digital atlas shows these stretched 50 per cent longer than previously estimated. The research published recently is a new update ...

On a hill in north London, about 100 metres above sea level, is the capital’s only commercial scale vineyard, Forty Hall. It ...

American writers misleadingly interpreted Egypt's past to argue that slavery was a divinely sanctioned institution ...

The findings potentially solve the paradox of how liquid water seems to have persisted on Mars even when the climate grew too ...

For the first time, scientists have created a detailed map showing huge, continent-sized river drainage systems on Mars. These ancient river networks date back billions of years, to a time when Mars ...

The majority of the temple dates to the 7th century BC, but archaeologists discovered portions of the site that are even ...

Even with satellites and centuries of research, a few places still slip through the cracks. In a few cases, cities once ...

It’s hard to imagine, but less than 200 years ago, Boston was surrounded by water. The city was basically an island, connected to the rest of the state only through a tiny spit of land. Neighborhoods ...

Old maps are rife with phantom islands. Sometimes these nonexistent landmasses come about because of mistakes made by sailors or cartographers; sometimes they can be traced back to folklore or legends ...