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, ...

A simple turn of the wrist at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in February 2023 has unveiled a centuries-old mystery about ancient Roman craftsmen. Washington State University art history professor ...

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A joint team of archaeologists, chronologists, geologists, and paleontologists have successfully dated a hoard of wooden tools recovered nearly a decade ago, Ancient Origins reported. The ancient ...

Life depends on genes being switched on and off at exactly the right time. Even the simplest living organisms do this, but usually over short distances across the DNA sequence, with the on/off switch ...

Recent archaeological discoveries are challenging established narratives of human origins and creativity. A 64,000-year-old ...

If you’ve ever played an Assassin’s Creed game and wondered just how much of its detailed historical world was truly authentic, the answer is simple: A heck of a lot. Series fans know that Ubisoft ...

How old is your food? Before food was a choice, it was a necessity — the bare minimum only eaten and endured in order to survive. But as creative beings, humans have transformed the means of survival ...

Mycenaean Palaces of the second millennium BC to the fall of the Roman Empire in the 5th century AD; it covers the birth, rise and fall of the Greek and Roman civilisations within their Mediterranean ...

Assassin's Creed: Origins is arguably the biggest and most important outing in the decade-long video game series' history. After taking a year off of its regular release schedule to focus on a film ...