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The evidence for lost ancient technology

From the perfectly symmetrical stone vessels of Saqqara to the massive granite boxes of the Serapeum, some Egyptian artifacts display levels of precision that challenge conventional explanations. This ...
The essays in a new anthology offer two distinct ways of interpreting the Promethean legacy of scientific progress.
I n 2023, archaeologists excavating a burial mound near the town of Nördlingen in Bavaria, Germany hit pay dirt: a grave dating back to the Bronze Age containing the remains of a man, woman, and child ...
In this remake version, an all-new “Subquests” will be added to the experience. In addition to the currently available ...
Beneath the streets of Cologne, Germany, layers of Roman architecture have drawn scholarly attention for decades, and a ...
Welsh is the oldest living language in Great Britain — a branch of ancient Celtic that has survived its English neighbour’s best efforts to kill it off. Despite their proximity, the two languages are ...
To his credit, Kasy is a realist here. He doesn’t presume that any of these proposals will be easy to implement. Or that it will happen overnight, or even in the near future. The troubling question at ...
This article is authored by Laxmidhar Behera, director, IIT Mandi and professor, IIT Kanpur.
Ben Lamm, the CEO and co-founder of the technology firm Colossal Biosciences, does not want to play favorites with the company’s various de-extinction projects. One look around a newly finished ...
There was a time when India did not measure its success in quarterly numbers. It measured itself in knowledge, trust, shared prosperity and moral order. Long-run economic reconstructions—most ...
Dr. Marta Chmiel-Chrzanowska and her colleagues conducted a multidisciplinary analysis of the only known preserved wooden coffin from the Roman Iron Age, the Princess of Bagicz. The study, published ...