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A first-ever biomechanics study of two First Nations weapons systems has identified the design features that make them so formidable.

From Roman "fish scale" armor to Japanese samurai suits, these examples of battle armor were designed to protect and impress.

The new city, dubbed Valeriana, was a dense urban settlement with temple pyramids and a ball court.

Around 1,200 years ago, a cat "made biscuits," kneading on a drying clay jug in Jerusalem, leaving behind the oldest evidence of this feline behavior on record.

Archaeologists think the felt figurine was used as a symbol of life by the Iron Age people of the region.

On the Silk Road, these lost twin cities may have sustained themselves in a foreboding landscape with metallurgy and commerce.

Archaeologists in Peru have unearthed the throne room of a powerful queen from the Moche culture, and detailed murals of the female ruler decorate its walls.

A new analysis indicates the human remains found in a well in Norway are from a 1197 raid described in a royal history.

The Endurance shipwreck spent 107 years submerged in Antarctic waters before being rediscovered and later scanned in 3D.

It's possible that the wheel was invented by copper miners in the Carpathian Mountains up to 6,000 years ago, according to a modeling study that uses techniques from structural mechanics.