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

Could ancient humans really have built the pyramids without extraterrestrial help? Or do such questions reveal more about ...

The transition from mythology to rational, scientific thought in Ancient Greece set the foundation for Western civilization.

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

Fragments of a star catalog from the second century B.C. have turned up in a manuscript that had been erased and written over centuries later. A new analysis of the religious manuscript shows that the ...

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 ...

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 ...

Ancient parrots really got around. A new analysis of their DNA found that humans transported living Amazonian macaw parrots across the Andes mountains to coastal Peru hundreds of years before the Inca ...

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 ...

Ayurveda, the ancient science of life, has been practiced in India for thousands of years as a holistic system of health and wellness. Rooted in natural remedies, diet, and lifestyle practices, ...