Imagine stumbling upon a piece of genuine history while doing something totally mundane, like cleaning out your garage or ...

We’ve all grown up hearing tales that started as “That couldn’t possibly be true…” and later morphed into “Wait — it was true ...

In regards to the basin, it likely had a ceremonial use, based on finds of pottery and oil lamps discovered very nearby.

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It is clear that the sprawling city of Teotihuacan near Mexico City was a major metropolis of the ancient world, but what do ...

In 1947, the Swiss zoologist Rudolf Schenkel published a paper titled “Expression Studies on Wolves.” Based on an eight-year ...

In an excerpt from his new book Dinner with King Tut, Sam Kean explores a weird and wild '90s experiment to replicate ancient ...

Some 3,500 years ago, hunter-gatherers began building massive earthwork mounds along the Mississippi River at Poverty Point, ...

The ancient Greek engineer Mandrocles of Samos is credited with creating the Pontoon Bridge, which spanned the Bosphorus Strait.

For decades, Larsen & Toubro has been the default name for everything that needed to be built in India, from airports and refineries to metros. Its rise from a mid-sized contractor to an engineering ...

The Domesday book is a manuscript record of the Great Survey of much of England and parts of Wales, completed in 1086 at the behest of the king William I, otherwise known as William the Conqueror. It ...