If you've ever tried to overhaul a garden, you know you're bound to find broken bits of pottery and long-forgotten statuary ...

The text—the tale of a warrior ruler—may help settle a nearly century-old puzzle about the location of the Temple of ...

The origins of writing aren’t set in stone. The ancient cave peoples weren’t as illiterate as portrayed in popular media.

The Lady of Elche is 22 inches (56 centimeters) tall and weighs just over 143 pounds (65 kilograms). Carved from a block of ...

Statistical analysis reveals ancient bone carvings hold complex information rivaling early Mesopotamian scripts.

The cutting-edge gamebot, named Ludii, “played the game against itself and identified a few variants that are enjoyable for humans to play.” ...

For Commes des Garçons, he designed improbable perfumes that conjured burning rubber and cars leaking oil. His uncanny art ...

These mysterious Stone Age symbols from 40,000 years ago could be writing’s earliest predecessors - Information encoded in symbols likely helped Stone Age hunter-gatherers coordinate groups, researche ...

Archaeologists in Germany have discovered a corridor system from the late Middle Ages in a burial site dating back to the 4th ...

The planet Neptune has a large dark spot "with an unexpected smaller bright spot adjacent to it," inveru observations using ESO's Very Large Telescope. Credit: ESO ...

A newly analyzed Greek inscription indicates that the Great Mosque of Homs likely stands on the site of the Roman Temple of the Sun, revealing a layered history of pagan, Christian, and Islamic ...