King Djoser of Egypt ordered his chief architect, Imhotep, to design a tomb like no other - The Step Pyramid of Djoser.

The secret meeting to elect the leader of the world's Catholics is set to begin, bringing with it the intrigue of an ancient ...

Boat docks are hotspots for lost tools, gear, and hidden surprises—and this trip proved it. With every cast of the magnet, we ...

You might soon carry a wallet made from dinosaur skin. No, not fossilized—actual leather engineered from T. rex DNA in a lab.

UC researchers discovered that prehistoric rhinos like these that shared a waterhole 12 million years ago lived in enormous herds. Photo/John Haxby/The University of Nebraska State Museum About 12 ...

In a breakthrough that blends ancient design with modern materials science, researchers have developed a new class of ceramic structures ... mechanical and aerospace engineering and Md Shajedul ...

“There was civilization in this place, and despite the shelling and destruction, there is still civilization.” ZIAD ALISSA, a Syrian doctor who lives in France and recently visited Palmyra ...

The map highlights the city of Palmyra in central Syria, as well as the ancient city of Apamea, and the city of Aleppo in the northwest. But up close, the damage from Syria’s 13-year civil war ...

My background in geology provides a useful understanding of how civil engineering structures interact with a given site’s subsurface conditions, thereby helping to inform engineering designs to ...

Laboratory of Advanced Materials, Department of Chemistry, Shanghai Key Laboratory of Molecular Catalysis and Innovative Materials, State Key Laboratory of Molecular Engineering of Polymers, ...

Hydraulic mechanics may have indeed been the driving force behind the construction of ancient Egyptian pyramids ... a remarkable blueprint for hydraulic engineering. The hydraulic-powered ...