Category: 3. Tech

An international team of researchers, including researchers from Universidad Politécnica de Madrid (UPM), is developing a new tool that will allow researchers to explore and assess mines in order to find out if it is economically viable to…

Flinders University archaeologists are using cutting edge subsurface imaging technology to help assist community groups map unmarked graves and manage their cultural heritage.

“This is a huge issue, particularly for rural communities,” says Dr…

Prehistoric rock paintings are a source of fascination across the world. Aside from their beauty, there’s deep meaning in these strokes, which depict ancient rituals and important symbols.

To learn more about these murals, researchers have…

At age 90, Ali Atar, one of the main military chiefs of King Boabdil of Granada, fought to his death in the Battle of Lucena in 1483.

It was there that his magnificent Nasrid sword was taken away from him, and researchers from the Polytechnic…

About eight hundred years ago, a ship sank in the Java Sea off the coast of the islands of Java and Sumatra in Indonesia.

There are no written records saying where the ship was going or where it came from–the only clues are the…

Throughout the centuries ships have weathered wars, storms, icebergs, and pirates, to name a few. Many ships have been lost in the face of these forces and gone down with all hands.

They lie on the bottom of the ocean, shelteringtheir stories and…

It is now possible to tell the story of mankind’s presence and evolution on the planet by analyzing trends in soil and sediment accumulation of fecal sterols, chemical compounds which are crucial in human physiology.

Scientists at Ca’ Foscari…

An airborne laser mapping survey of over 2,000 square kilometers of northern Guatemala – the largest such survey to date of this region – “compels” a revaluation of Maya demography, agriculture, and political economy, according to its…