The ancient world was probably filled with magicians using science only a few understood, but the works of one man have ...

For decades, archaeologists believed that cats first started living alongside early farming communities in the Levant — covering parts of today’s Middle East and eastern Mediterranean — around 9,500 ...

The only reason such a detailed eclipse record survives is that ancient Chinese scholars believed unusual celestial phenomena ...

Ancient Babylonian astronomers were way ahead of their time, using sophisticated geometric techniques that until now had been considered an achievement of medieval European scholars. That is the ...

Long before modern observatories and spacecraft, court scribes in ancient China were quietly building one of humanity’s first ...

More than a dozen ancient gold tongues have been discovered in a cemetery at the site of Oxyrhynchus in Egypt. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s ...

When you're trying to fathom a mangled relic of very old hi-tech, it helps to have the manufacturer's instructions. For over a century since its discovery in an ancient shipwreck, the exact function ...

The domestic cat has a long, complex and uncertain history. Ancient DNA is making its origin story clearer.

A team of international researchers has uncovered fresh data on the world's earliest recorded solar eclipse using ancient ...