The Lighthouse of Alexandria, one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World, was a Greek engineering marvel that guided ships ...

For decades, Egypt’s pyramids have stood as stoic marvels of ancient ingenuity. Historians have debated for a long time how civilizations with no modern-day equipment managed to haul these humongous ...

Can modern engineers learn best practices from ancient road builders? Modern road construction often relies on modifying the landscape by blasting through rock, which can result in landslides. Because ...

A newly exposed stretch of fortification in Jerusalem has given archaeologists a rare, almost cinematic glimpse of how an ...

The ancient Inca built a complex system of roads that span some 20,000 miles and range in altitude from sea level to 14,000 feet, all without the benefit of special tools or even a formal writing ...

Ancient civilizations were dropping technological bombshells long before Silicon Valley existed. Just this year, archaeologists in Turkey uncovered 2,400-year-old tablets containing unknown encryption ...

Anand Mahindra took to X to share a video of the famous Brihadeeswara Temple in Thanjavur and praise its architecture in ...

Researchers analyzed 333 Italian centenarians and compared their genetic composition to 103 ancient genomes to investigate ...

An ancient swimming pool near Corinth in Greece is still regarded 2,000 years later as an aesthetic engineering marvel.

Russell has a PhD in the history of medicine, violence, and colonialism. His research has explored topics including ethics, science governance, and medical involvement in violent contexts. Russell has ...