The museum campus – the largest devoted to a single civilisation – took more than 20 years to build. Read more at ...

While many modern plants use colorful flowers to attract pollinators, ancient palm-like plants called cycads lure them by ...

The words “pollination” and “flower” may seem inseparable, but plants began courting insects millions of years before they ...

Verona’s ancient Roman Arena will receive a modern facelift and become more accessible to people with disabilities ahead of ...

It seems the AI hype has turned into an AI bubble. There have been many bubbles before, from the Tulip mania of the 17th century to the derivatives bubble of the 21st century. For many commentators, ...

MIT scientists have used modern technology to unravel the mysterious self-healing properties of ancient Roman concrete.

Much of human history has been influenced and shaped by warfare. Warfare itself predates history, with the squabbles and fights […] ...

From ancient Rome to medieval Spain to Renaissance Venice, generations of mariners have relied on biscotti as a source of ...

Until now, the earliest clear evidence of humans creating fire dates to roughly 50,000 years ago. The new findings push that ...

Pompeii Archeological Park site map, with showing where the ancient building site is located, with colour coded piles of raw construction materials (right): purple: debris; green: piles of dry ...

But could a 2,000‑year‑old construction site hold the key to building longer‑lasting, greener infrastructure today?