In the storage rooms of a museum in western Turkey, an archaeologist noticed an unexpected residue inside a small Roman glass vessel. Dark-brown flakes still clung to the interior. Researchers have ...

New evidence has emerged that sheds light on the possible first people to populate the Americas. Dating of stone and ivory ...

The Egyptians believed that hieroglyphs offered magical protection to people in this life and the afterlife, and inscribed the signs on monuments, statues, funerary objects, and papyri.

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Scientists studying ancient ocean fossils found that the Arabian Sea was better oxygenated 16 million years ago, even though ...

It is the most important archaeological discovery of the last decade in Mexico due to its level of preservation and the ...

Despite claims of success in Ukraine, new CSIS data shows that Russia is paying an extraordinary price for minimal gains, ...

Cannabis produces a complex suite of bioactive compounds, including tetrahydrocannabinol (THC) and cannabidiol (CBD), but how these molecules evolved has long been a mystery. Now, new research has ...

Konstantine Panegyres does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organization that would benefit from this article, and has disclosed no relevant affiliations ...

Jemima McPhee receives funding from an Australian Government Research Training Program (RTP) Scholarship. Ancient scientists can be easy to dismiss. Greek philosopher Thales of Miletus, often ...

In Ryan George’s wonderful “Pitch Meeting” series, on YouTube, the excitable producer character, relishing the eager screenwriter character’s ability to load a conflict with life-or-death consequences ...

Researchers believe they've found the oldest-known depiction of cosmic creation carved into a small silver cup unearthed over half a century ago. The Ain Samiya goblet, discovered in the West Bank in ...