Saqqara reveals more of its hidden secrets with the unveiling of a trove of treasures found on January 17th, including ...

Arrayed like giant puzzle pieces on the museum floor, research assistants and volunteers spent weeks cleaning the timbers to ...

Since time immemorial, wood has been the most ancient building material. Shelters, huts, houses, churches, and other buildings were erected using it. The complexity of the buildings increased over the ...

In this episode Dr Sam Willis explores HMS Warrior, one of the most groundbreaking ships in the history of naval power.An iron-framed, iron-clad single-gundeck warship, launched in 1860 HMS Warrior ...

Locating a historic shipwreck is only the beginning. One ancient Egyptian vessel may take us literally hundreds of years to ...

Underwater archaeologists may have found the Recovery, an 18th-century British treasure ship lost off Wexford, Ireland, that carried valuable cargo including marble and bronze.

Archaeologists have spotted it on ancient coffins, sculptures, murals and ceramics. The oldest known sample of Egyptian blue decorates a small alabaster bowl dating to 3250 B.C.E.

With deadly bronze rams and engineering precision, Greek triremes were the ancient world’s missile cruisers—slim, fast, and absolutely unforgiving. Credit: EDSITEment, Public Domain. The geometry ...

Wood is experiencing a new renaissance, and it's not just a return to traditional techniques. The June issue of Domus, edited by guest editor 2025 Bjarke Ingels, explores the unexpected use of this ...

The Ship of Theseus is an ancient brain-teaser. Plutarch, ... But as we all know, wood doesn’t last forever, as it can start to rot very quickly. So, whenever a plank rotted away or timber decayed ...

Last American slave ship is discovered in Alabama The schooner Clotilda smuggled African captives into the U.S. in 1860, more than 50 years after importing slaves was outlawed.

An ancient wooden Egyptian falcon. Inset: A powder developed by WSU for research into Egyptian blue. (Composite featuring photos by Matt Unger and Joshua Franzos, Carnegie Museum of Natural History) ...