Inside the British Museum, an investigation into ancient technology reveals a collection of remarkably precise Egyptian stone ...

Almost every book that survives from the ancient world does so because somebody copied it by hand. But one Roman library ...

An international team of researchers has uncovered new evidence illuminating the evolutionary origins of one of the defining ...

Because of its organic composition, wood typically decays over time, making ancient wooden objects an extremely rare find in ...

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By re-creating carbonized scrolls, researchers found lead-based ink is easier to detect with X-rays, potentially helping AI reveal texts in Herculaneum scrolls.

Japan's oldest jewelry brand that lasted 5000 yearsThere is a gemstone in Japan that has been cherished since the Jomon ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A study recently published in Archaeological Research in Asia certainly doesn't confirm that outlandish speculation, but the broad ...

I finished reading "Folklore of Tokyo." It is a book recently published by folklorist Yasunori Shimamura that traces the ...

New research on Paracas warriors in ancient Peru finds sophisticated spearthrowers, slings, and obsidian weapons, but no evidence that bows were adopted.

In a study of Africans and South Americans, researchers identified more than 600 species of bacteria that may once have been ...

An unusual rock buried on the far side of the moon is providing fresh clues for a longstanding scientific puzzle: the ancient ...