Discover 25 ancient things still working today, from the wheel to written language. Explore timeless innovations that shaped ...

Thousands of years before robots became reality, Greek mythology introduced Talos, a bronze giant whose story explored ...

Ancient plant seeds provide important archaeological evidence for studying the evolution of human civilization. Lingnan ...

The math doesn’t add up—and new evidence suggests humans were crossing open oceans tens of thousands of years earlier than we ...

Fragments of a star catalog from the second century B.C. have turned up in a manuscript that had been erased and written over centuries later. A new analysis of the religious manuscript shows that the ...

Researchers analyzed the genomes of 524 never before-studied ancient people, including the first genome of an individual from the ancient Indus Valley Civilization. Insights answer longstanding ...

Scientists have found smallpox viruses in the remains of people in Chile from around 500 years ago, revealing how the virus ...

What does it mean to be human? For a long time, the answer seemed clear. Our species, Homo sapiens—with our complex thoughts and deep emotions—were the only true humans to ever walk the Earth. Earlier ...

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New research shows that the rise of Sumer was deeply tied to the tidal and sedimentary dynamics of ancient Mesopotamia. Early communities harnessed predictable tides for irrigation, but when deltas ...

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