There is something quietly humbling about standing before an ancient artifact and realizing, with all of our satellites, supercomputers, and electron microscopes, we still have no clue how it was made ...

We like to think of technological progress as a straight line — primitive beginnings, slow medieval trudge, industrial explosion, digital revolution. But history keeps poking holes in that comfortable ...

New archaeological evidence suggests that ancient inhabitants of the Philippines and Island Southeast Asia had the advanced plant-working technology needed for sophisticated boat building and open-sea ...