Its purpose was set in stone. Aliens might not have built the Egyptian pyramids, but that apparently doesn’t mean they didn’t ...

Indigenous people across Australia place tremendous cultural and customary value on many species and ecological communities. The very presence of a plant or animal species can trigger an Indigenous ...

Earthquake monitoring, steam engines, surgery, and advanced materials: A journey through ancient inventions that were ahead of their time—and did not survive. In the year 138 AD, in the imperial court ...

Rutgers researchers have unearthed the earliest definitive evidence of broomcorn millet (Panicum miliaceum) in ancient Iraq, challenging our understanding of humanity's earliest agricultural practices ...

A new study uses metabolic profiling to uncover ancient knowledge systems behind therapeutic and psychoactive plant use in ancient Arabia. A new study uses metabolic profiling to uncover ancient ...

A community near an ancient Buddhist archaeological site on Indonesia’s Sumatra Island has established a voluntary school to teach young people history and culture that dates back centuries. The ...

Videos featuring Feng Shi, in which the renowned archaeoastronomer and member of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences discusses topics such as ancient Chinese cosmology and the origins of Chinese ...