A roughly 4,800-year-old royal Mesopotamian cemetery in eastern Turkey appears to complicate existing theories about how some ...

A new study published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences has turned traditional thinking on its head by ...

Priests, princes, or plenty? The only way to answer these questions is to dig deep, and this is what archaeologists have done for hundreds of years in the tall mounds of built-up mudbrick that are the ...

The oldest reference in the first known writing — cuneiform — was not about gods or kings, but about beer. Lots of it. It was ...

The Archimedes screw, an ancient Greek invention for lifting water. Learn about its origins, how it works, and its modern ...

The Selkirk Settlers were among the first organized European agricultural settlers to arrive in what is now Manitoba. In the ...

Perched on the edge of a river near the city of Siirt, Türkiye, is an archaeological site that offers a chance to completely ...

A group in Dololo Dokatu, Marsabit County, has embraced technology that allows it to use as little water as possible in this ...

A perfect storm blew silver, the blue metal, up more than gold or copper, both of which rose to new record highs early this ...

As agricultural research continues to become more entwined with technology, smart farming—a phrase that encompasses research ...

Based on organic residues – imperceptible to the naked eye and detectable only at a molecular level – bronze age wine consumption must be fundamentally reconsidered.