Think ancient civilizations were primitive? The evidence suggests otherwise.From computers that tracked celestial events to ...

Think about walking through ruins that have witnessed empires rise and fall, where kings once ruled and civilizations ...

Our species emerged in Africa approximately a quarter of a million years ago and quickly spread across Eurasia, and eventually around the world. We started writing things down about 5,000 years ago, ...

Before modern science had a true understanding of what a solar eclipse is and how they work, ancient cultures had to form their own beliefs over what happened during this brief, but awesome, event.

Examination of an ancient alabaster vase in the Yale Peabody Museum’s Babylonian Collection has revealed traces of opiates, providing the clearest evidence to date of broad opium use in ancient ...

The issue of who was considered Greek during the era of ancient Greece has been a matter of broad scholarly debate for ...

Roman, Egyptian, and Chinese civilizations had many different ingenious inventions. Chocolate was a big aphrodisiac for Mesoamerican civilizations and used for energy. The first earthquake detector is ...

Both Egypt and China have such long histories; their ancient cultures are often compared. For example, China's Shang Dynasty ...

NEW PHILADELPHIA ‒ Kira Rossi, a senior at New Philadelphia High School, has a wide variety of interests ‒ ancient cultures, languages, music and weird stories from history. Rossi, the daughter of ...

It was common for ancient cultures to communally take hallucinogens, but this society did things much differently. An international team of archaeologists has revealed the role hallucinogenic drugs ...

Long before fancy serums in dropper bottles and $300 night creams, ancient civilizations had their own sophisticated approaches to achieving luminous, healthy skin. While we typically imagine ancient ...