Scientists have unravelled a mystery about the disappearance of dwarf hippos and elephants that once roamed the picturesque landscape on the Mediterranean island of Cyprus before palaeolithic humans ...

[CLIP: “Handwriting,” by Frank Jonsson] Santos: More than two thousand years ago an ancient Greek mathematician named Eratosthenes used math to work out the circumference of the Earth. Feltman: Wow, I ...

Ramses the Great is credited with expanding Egypt's reach as far as modern Syria to the east and Sudan to the south.

Astrology and religion are two ancient belief systems that have shaped humanity’s understanding of the world for millennia.

In recent years, there has been a surge of interest in the design of mechanical metamaterials for different science and engineering applications. In particular, various computational approaches ...

Researchers are shedding light on an ancient Babylonian tablet known as the oldest map of the world. The map was likely ...

Well known to specialists, but less familiar to the general public, Vienna’s ancient Egyptian Papyrus Museum should be part of every visit to the Austrian capital, writes David Tresilian ...

The Hebrew University of Jerusalem proudly congratulates five of its esteemed researchers for receiving prestigious European ...

When using the Egyptian Pantheon in Age of Mythology Retold you will need to follow the best build order to strive forward in your quest for victory. In AoM Retold, the four Pantheons have a range ...

A full 25% showed evidence of consciousness. If we do the math on this, one of the authors suggested that 100,000 people may well fall into this category in the United States alone. (photo: Triff / ...

Between 1550 and 30 B.C., many ancient Egyptian paintings and sculptures depicted men and women wearing small, conical adornments on top of their heads. The type of activities people did while ...