New research shows northwest African communities actively shaped connections and exchange between many cultures.

This Summer, London will welcome a new cultural journey through the ancient world with TIMEWALK – an immersive exhibition from DEM Museums – which will open at Immerse LDN at Excel Waterfront in July.

We live in a time of furious technological advancement, and some of the 20th century's gadgets are aging into the lost ...

These aren’t simply gaps in our historical record—they’re discoveries that actively contradict established timelines, technologies, and understanding of ancient capabilities. The 100 ancient myths, ...

A dozen years ago, on a different website, I wrote an article titled How to Watch the World Cup Like a True Soccer Nerd. The idea was simple. It was summertime and the World Cup was around the corner ...

June 9 (Reuters) - Canadian payments firm Nuvei is in advanced talks to acquire cross-border payments company Payoneer Global (PAYO.O), opens new tab for about $2.7 billion, according to two people ...

Engineers have subjected the Sabu Disk, a roughly 5,000-year-old schist artifact housed in the Egyptian Museum in Cairo, to modern material analysis in an effort to determine its original function.

Many "modern" inventions actually have precedents dating back more than 1000 years, to ancient Greek and Roman times.

A team of historians, scientists and engineers has developed a portable X-ray scanner to study 4,000-year-old letters encased ...

It is an oft-quoted—and always alarming—statistic that 34 percent of the world’s carbon emissions are caused by the construction industry, with a significant portion borne specifically from the ...

The famous waterway began as two rivers, a new study suggests. Tectonic activity around five million years ago probably made ...

Plus: OpenAI plans to turn ChatGPT into a ‘super app’ before its IPO. This is today's edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what's going on in the world of ...