Before modern science had a true understanding of what a solar eclipse is and how they work, ancient cultures had to form their own beliefs over what happened during this brief, but awesome, event.

Archaeologists have long known that complex societies can unravel with startling speed, but a growing body of evidence ...

Examination of an ancient alabaster vase in the Yale Peabody Museum’s Babylonian Collection has revealed traces of opiates, providing the clearest evidence to date of broad opium use in ancient ...

The discovery of the settlements over the years has led to a new understanding of the Asia Minor and Anatolia regions.

An international team of archaeologists has revealed the role hallucinogenic drugs played in one ancient culture, according to a study published this week in Proceedings of the National Academies of ...

Roman, Egyptian, and Chinese civilizations had many different ingenious inventions. Chocolate was a big aphrodisiac for Mesoamerican civilizations and used for energy. The first earthquake detector is ...

Climate data offers clues to what might have happened to people of the Indus River Valley and how that might relate to our own warming world.

In the Ecuadorian Andes, young Otavalo Indigenous people are using anime to inspire pride in their culture and language.

Ancient Egyptian bust. How did ancient cultures view the mind, the brain, and their relationships? Source: Julia Kadel | Unsplash The German psychologist Hermann Ebbinghaus wrote in 1908 that ...

I was visiting the little-known and ancient Iberian site of Ullastret in northeastern Spain, and I wondered how the long, high, defensive exterior stone walls of the city had managed to stand for more ...