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 ...

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

Quick Take The discovery of the sea sponge order Vilesida and its unique sterols supports the hypothesis that animals may have originated 100 million years earlier than previously expected. Ancient ...

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

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

Treponema pallidum, a microorganism that can cause a deadly sexually transmitted disease in humans, may have a far more ancient lineage than scientists once thought The first recorded venereal ...

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