There is something quietly humbling about standing before an ancient artifact and realizing, with all of our satellites, ...

An obscure ancient Egyptian text discovered in the 19th century led to discoveries that rewrote the timeline of early medical ...

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The Antikythera computer captured the ancient Greek passion for mathematics, and especially geometry, and science.

Important, previously unrecognized genetic changes common to all ancient and modern Homo sapiens spread in Africa more than 300,000 years ago, a new study finds. After that, the same investigation ...

As humans alter the planet’s climate and ecosystems, scientists are looking to Earth’s history to help predict what may unfold from climate change. To this end, massive ice structures like glaciers ...

Paintings from ancient Egypt show the harvesting of grapes and the making of wine. Mesopotamian murals illustrate elites rai ...

How did ancient fish perceive their environment in the deep sea? An international team led by scientists from the Natural ...