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

The carriage workshop, which also had evidence of fixing horseshoes, was situated along the well-traveled Via Claudia Augusta and offered services to travelers in the first century C.E.

The ancient Romans were masters of building and engineering, perhaps most famously represented by the aqueducts. Those ...

Researchers have developed a novel application of histological staining to screen for ancient proteins in situ—within the ...

Archaeologists in Tajikistan have uncovered a remarkable 1,500-year-old water pipeline system perched atop a 65-meter hill at the Mugtepa settlement near Istaravshan. This extraordinary discovery ...

It is an intellectual pleasure to find friends and topics that intertwine over time and lead to greater understanding. It is like lifting a heavy velvet cloth and discovering ancient and precious ...

GD is working with Epirus on the TRX Leonidas system, which uses microwaves to blast swarms of unmanned aerial vehicles. In a demonstration that would surely make their namesakes proud, a ...

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In 1990, an ancient human skull was unearthed in China’s Hubei Province that was so badly deformed during fossilization that it was hard to gauge its significance. A new analysis now indicates that ...