archaeology

Archaeologists flying drone cameras discovered 7,000-year-old prehistorical rock paintings in remote caves in Spain in a pioneering study.

Pompeii was the famous ancient Roman city that was buried under volcanic ash during the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in the year 79, trapping many of the inhabitants before they could flee. Here's a new 53-second drone video that flies through and over the city as it stands today after centuries of excavations, offering a beautiful perspective of the area.

What will future generations think of the cameras we're using these days? What will the cameras look like to them? Japanese artist Maico Akiba has a project titled "100 Years Later" that imagines what various modern commonplace objects might look like if rediscovered by people a century later. Among the objects are a number of cameras.

Hyperspectral cameras are those that can capture information in the electromagnetic spectrum, far beyond what the human eye — …