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, ...

Rome transported obelisks and treasures from Egypt and Greece, showcasing engineering, art, and cultural exchange.

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The launch of the Data Research Center marks a new phase in ISAC’s evolution into a 21st-century research institute where ...

Gaza’s history stretches back over 4,000 years, making it one of the oldest continuously inhabited places on Earth. Over time ...

Independent researchers led by Michael Donnellan claim to have discovered ancient ruins on Spain's Salmedina Island that ...

The Native American democracy that the U.S. founders were most likely to know about was the Iroquois Confederacy. They call themselves the Haudenosaunee, the “people of the longhouse,” because the ...

Had one hoped to leave a time capsule for today’s Bostonians in the Permian period 250 million years ago, much less the Pliocene epoch four million years ago , they would have been completely, utterly ...

In a groundbreaking discovery, archaeologists in Southeast Asia have unearthed ancient boats and tools that challenge the ...

Nobody really knows how to speak to the future in a way that it will hear.

A ridiculous but instructive thought experiment involving deep time, plate tectonics, erosion and the slow death of the sun ...

Bactrian gold discoveries in Asia reveal ancient Greek civilization marks that predate Alexander the Great's conquests ...