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

Elon Musk declared he is "rewriting history books" with AI research into ancient Rome. The technology billionaire announced ...

Elon Musk funds AI-powered archaeology in Rome, pledging $1M to help researchers digitally rebuild ancient sites and rewrite ...

Wax tablets were among the oldest writing media, and scientists have recently uncovered the secrets of their technology. In Ancient Rome, if you needed to write a letter, you wouldn't reach for ...

Scientists have uncovered how Roman concrete has endured millennia. The discovery reveals an ancient technique that allowed ...

What can an ancient water basin discovered near Rome reveal about construction, engineering and water management techniques that may be useful today?

“I can’t believe it worked!” says Nat Friedman, co-founder of the Vesuvius Challenge, which offered $1m in prizes to anyone who could use artificial intelligence (AI) to decipher papyrus scrolls ...

People write down lots of things—from epic poems and sacred texts to tax decrees and shopping lists. But these things are of little use to anyone if they can’t be read. In the past few decades, ...

Dad jokes aren't just a thing of the present: NPR's Scott Simon has the details on the "Liber Patavinus" - a book of humor for Ancient Rome. AI technology and archaeology have recently combined to ...

AS BIG as their empire was, the Romans never reached Greenland. Yet that remote island has become the place to go for those interested in ancient economic history. Greenland’s ice sheets preserve ...