Humankind's tangled shrub of ancestry now has a new branch: Researchers in the Philippines announced today that they have discovered a species of ancient human previously unknown to science ...

Hipparchus’s star catalog is the oldest known attempt to document the positions of as many objects in the night sky as possible, and it was the first time that two coordinates were used to ...

Before the era of the Romans in southern Italy, the Messapii people crossed the Adriatic Sea and called the Italian peninsula ...

PROVIDENCE, R.I. [Brown University] — A study led by researchers from Brown University finds that rainfall patterns across northern Africa remained largely stable between 3.5 and 2.5 million years ago ...

But for ancient doctors, that spoilage could be much more than an unpleasant but inconsequential disappointment. It was seen as actively harmful. “ [Galen] says, ‘Look, it’s also decomposing in your ...

“We Don’t Forget You”: poster, Feb. 28, 2025 listing the names of the dead from the head on collision of trains near Tempe, Larissa, Thessaly, Feb. 28, 2023. Photo: Nikos Likomitros.

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It lies at the heart of Chichen Itza in Mexico. A site of more than 20 ancient buildings, some of which date back as far as the sixth century AD. For many people, this is bucket list territory.

Ramesses II was around 90 years old when he died, an astonishing age for ancient Egypt. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works.

Fragments of the ancient Roman fresco show a floral pattern. (Image credit: MOLA (Museum of London Archaeology)) The art served to demonstrate the wealth and taste of the villa's inhabitants.

The analysis reveals surprising patterns of life around those ancient structures, offering a fresh window onto evolution half a billion years ago. Animal reefs spanned ancient Nevada More than 514 ...

So we have a rich tradition in the use and suspicion of the armed forces in local disputes, entangled with issues of race and slavery. In England of olden times, the penalty for refusing to join a ...