In the earliest text written in Marathi, a language of millions in western and central India, a 13th-century religious figure ...
Elon Musk donated $1 million through the Musk Foundation to support digital archaeological research into ancient Rome — a ...
The story of Phidippides and Pan, the god of the wild, stands as the most baffling episode of the Ancient Greek world—one of ...
Scientists have long struggled to peer into Earth’s earliest biological history, limited by the fragmentary nature of fossils ...
From the Minoan royal road to the Ridgeway, ancient roads still exist today showing how past civilizations built networks ...
The Mausoleum at Halicarnassus, in modern-day Turkey, was an ornate memorial built for Carian ruler Mausolus and overseen by his sister-wife Artemesia II.
Ancient Persians believed the sky was blue because it reflected a massive sapphire beneath the Earth, giving the stone cosmic symbolism. Kings, priests, and rulers wore sapphires to signal wisdom, ...
Archaeologists have unearthed a tremendously rare sight in the form of a largely untouched, 2,500-year-old burial mound.
New research shows RNA is preserved for longer than scientists had realized. This is the oldest RNA ever profiled.