Flower designs on 8,000-year-old Mesopotamian pots reveal a “mathematical knowledge” perhaps developed to share land and ...

Researchers have reconstructed ancient herpesvirus genomes from Iron Age and medieval Europeans, revealing that HHV-6 has ...

Ancient Nubian tattoos on children reshape ideas about belief, care, and the body. Along the Nile, in what is now Sudan, archaeologists have uncovered evidence that children (some barely past infancy) ...

Ancient scientists can be easy to dismiss. Greek philosopher Thales of Miletus, often described as the West’s first scientist, believed the whole Earth was suspended on water. Roman encyclopaedist ...

Stephen has degrees in science (Physics major) and arts (English Literature and the History and Philosophy of Science), as well as a Graduate Diploma in Science Communication. Stephen has degrees in ...

A large ancient Egyptian fortress in the northern Sinai Desert had an elaborate landscape of 500 trees leading to its entrance more than 2,000 years ago, new excavations reveal. Archaeologists made ...

An ancient jawbone discovered in Taiwan belonged to an enigmatic group of early human ancestors called Denisovans, scientists reported Thursday. Relatively little is known about Denisovans, an extinct ...

Researchers have recreated the world's oldest synthetic pigment, called Egyptian blue, which was used in ancient Egypt about 5,000 years ago. A team of Washington State University-led researchers has ...

Today, when NCERT textbooks assert that Brahmagupta and Bhaskaracharya developed algebra independently and before Arab ...

Ancient thinkers struggled to tell facts from falsehoods just like we do – and their strategies are still relevant today.

Ayurvedic teachings outline the optimal timeframe for high-quality sleep and how to adjust your routine to get in bed at a decent hour Do you regularly wake up feeling groggy and like you didn’t sleep ...