Researchers in Pompeii believe they may have found the first physical evidence of an ancient Greek 'machine gun' known as ...

Meet Jonathan, a Seychelles giant tortoise who, at an estimated 192 to 193 years old in 2025, is officially the world’s oldest living land animal. Remarkably, he may be even older than documented, ...

When you are being trained as a palaeontologist or a geologist, you are told fossils only occur in sedimentary rocks,” ...

A new study suggests Roman forces may have used a rare ancient Greek repeating ballista—known as the polybolos and sometimes described as a 'machine gun of antiquity'—during the siege of Pompeii in 89 ...

The world’s largest gold reserves—approximately 99.999% of all the gold on Earth—are at an unreachable depth beneath more ...

Just a few kilometers from Seville lies the archaeological site of Valencina de la Concepción, which five thousand years ago ...