The world’s first lock and key system was invented in ancient Egypt around 4000 BCE. Made of wood, it used simple pins and ...

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The humble plant that grows in the Nile had a huge impact on the written word in ancient Egypt, Greece and Rome and thereby on the cultures of the rest of the world. A small museum in Cairo shows how ...

As Africa now stands on the threshold of the Fourth Industrial Revolution, it must reclaim that ancient mathematical genius — ...

More than two years after achieving independence from the British, India adopted its Constitution on 1949. Drafted under the chairmanship of Dr BR Ambedkar, the assembly met for over 11 sessions ...

A new radiocarbon study has clarified the timing of the colossal Thera eruption, placing it before Egypt’s New Kingdom.

Concrete was the foundation of the ancient Roman empire. It enabled Rome's storied architectural revolution as well as the ...

The Byzantine Empire has marked world history in many significant ways, contributing ingenious inventions still in use to ...

A newly identified crocodile relative from Egypt pushes back the origins of the marine-hunting dyrosaurids by millions of years. The fossil, Wadisuchus kassabi, shows a mix of primitive and advanced ...

Making fire on demand was a milestone in the lives of our early ancestors. But the question of when that skill first arose ...

Opium use may have been widespread in ancient Egyptian culture—including potentially among notable kings. Yale researchers found chemical traces of opiates in an ancient alabaster vase at the Peabody ...

Scientists excavating the ruins of Pompeii have discovered a construction site left frozen in time by the eruption of Italy's ...