Dec 12 2018SaveArchaeology12/12/18Archaeology12/12/18Scientists Virtually Reconstruct Magnificent Pre-Incan TempleGeorge Dvorsky24SaveThe 1,500-year-old Pumapunku temple in western Bolivia is considered a crowning achievement of Andean architecture,…
Oct 24 2018SaveArchaeology10/24/18Archaeology10/24/18Discovery of Ancient Spearpoints in Texas Has Some Archaeologists Questioning the History of Early AmericasGeorge Dvorsky132SaveArchaeologists have discovered two previously unknown forms of spearpoint technology at a site in Texas. The…
Aug 31 2017Save8/31/17New Experiment Reveals Secret Behind 200,000-Year-Old Neanderthal GlueGeorge Dvorsky47SaveOver a hundred thousand years ago, Neanderthals used tar to bind objects together, yet scientists have struggled to…
Jun 10 2016Save6/10/16The World’s Oldest Computer May Have Been Used to Predict the FutureGeorge Dvorsky98SaveDiscovered in an ancient shipwreck near Crete in 1901, the freakishly advanced Antikythera Mechanism has been called…
Nov 27 2014Save11/27/14The Mysterious Antikythera Mechanism Is More Ancient Than We ThoughtGeorge Dvorsky231SaveAs if the freakishly advanced Antikythera Mechanism wasn't astounding enough, a new analysis suggests the…
Dec 13 2010Save12/13/10Advanced Imaging Reveals a Computer 1,500 Years Ahead of Its TimeEd Grabianowski124Save In this io9 flashback, we revisit a post about how X-rays and advanced photography uncovered the true complexity of…
Dec 11 2010Save12/11/10Could Stonehenge Have Been Built With Balls?Casey Chan429SaveStonehenge. How the heck was it built? The latest theory, from a student, says since the Stone Age men didn't have…
Jun 3 2010Save6/3/10Five ancient technologies that were ahead of their timesEd Grabianowski273Save Sometimes archaeologists find artifacts so mind-blowing they seem like evidence of lost civilizations or alien…
Jan 8 2010Save1/8/10Advanced Imaging Reveals a Computer 1,500 Years Ahead of Its TimeEd Grabianowski371Save X-rays and advanced photography have uncovered the true complexity of the mysterious Antikythera mechanism, a…