Paleolithic tools found at the Namorotukunan site in Kenya suggest that early Homo species kept their technology going even ...

It’s wild to think that a math puzzle from the 1200s is now helping power AI, encryption, and the digital world we live in.

About 5,000 years ago, people living in what is now Iran began extracting copper from rock by processing ore, an activity ...

The Virtual Museum of Ancient Inventions is a project that was begun by students in the course Ancient Inventions, first taught by Marjorie Senechal, which was offered at Smith from 1997 through 2004.

“The fossil and plant records tell an incredible story,” said Rahab N. Kinyanjui from the National Museums of Kenya. “As the ...

Editor’s note: This is a timely blog by Dennis Feucht, especially regarding the title of this blog, since my hard drive just crashed a couple of weeks ago. Fortunately, my data (technology) was not ...

Step through the gates of Olympus and you meet a reality far more exacting than myth: stone fatigue, seismic stress, polluted ...