Mummy" is the word at the Field Museum this Halloween, which is using some new technology to unlock the secrets of the dead.

Messages hidden in priceless medieval texts such as The Book of Lismore may be legible for the first time in centuries thanks ...

Another challenge is that ancient rocks that are radioactive can also show signals ... a solution that has the potential to ...

These “miniature trails of destruction,” as the researchers call them, are caused by high-energy particles bouncing off the ...

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

Scans of mummies at Chicago’s Field Museum of Natural History uncovered new details about how they were prepared for the afterlife and helped solve a baffling mystery.

A Virginia Tech-led team is hunting for dark matter — not with telescopes or particle colliders — but by scrutinizing billion ...

An 'extraordinary' burial chamber containing the remains of an ancient Egyptian priestess has ... with rooms over 36 feet (11 metres) high carved into the rock. Idy had been placed in a coffin ...

Using drone-based lidar, researchers mapped two medieval cities, Tashbulak and Tugunbulak, in Uzbekistan, revealing detailed urban structures significant to the Silk Road's history. The first use of d ...

The ancient mystery of the great sound quality at the ancient Greek theater of Epidaurus has finally been solved, researchers ...