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

British archaeologists recently uncovered a remarkable collection of two-millennia-old artifacts dating back to the Iron Age, ...

Ancient texts speak of a strange and valuable metal known as orichalcum. The mystical material was often dismissed as a fantastical invention – until they discovered a large cache of the stuff ...

Scientists believe the batteries (if that is their correct function) were used to electroplate items such as putting a layer of one metal (gold) onto the surface of another (silver), a method still ...

A firearm dating to circa-1540 was recently found in southern Arizona.

ARTEFACTS made from extraterrestrial metal have been discovered by archaeologists in two ancient cemeteries in Poland. Four items of jewellery, three bracelets and a pin, containing a form of iron ...