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Ancient History
To protect yourself, you need an antifungal rather than an amulet.
And her clothing tells an important story, says archeologist Rita Wright.
Nearly 2000 years ago, Mt. Vesuvius erupted, burying Pompeii but incinerating Herculaneum. The most lethal volcanic phenomenon is at fault.
Science isn't synonymous with technology; it's about a way of thinking.
Mongol forces never fully conquered the continent, but they played a key role in its historical development.
It wasn't merely an act of brutality; it was a condemnation for the afterlife.
Zombies aren't a modern-day obsession. Throughout history, fear of the undead led to bizarre burial rituals all over the world.
When Mongol traders came knocking, Sultan Muhammad II shaved off their beards. Three years later, his whole empire was annihilated.
She apparently learned some valuable business skills as a former prostitute.
The cathedral is being explored as never before.
Brian C. Muraresku, New York Times best-selling author of "The Immortality Key," unpacks ancient evidence for the widespread ritual use of psychoactive plants.
Humiliating powerful people was not a key to success.
A new discovery pushes back the origin of these technologies by about 40,000 years.
What is Captain America doing in ancient Mesopotamia?
Queen Calafia seems like she could have sprung from the pages of a modern fantasy novel.
The 1,200-year-old "Book of Ingenious Devices" contains designs for futuristic inventions like gas masks, water fountains, and digging machines.
Archaeologists turn to other scientific fields to fill in the picture of how victims lived and why they died.
A non-invasive method for looking inside structures is solving mysteries about the ancient pyramid.
The strange bronze artifact perplexed scholars for more than a century, including how it traveled so far from home.
Though ultimately incorrect, the ancient Greek philosophers blazed a conceptual trail for humankind to understand the nature of reality.
This year marks 2,000 years since the birth of the Roman author of the first natural encyclopedia.
If you get married in South Africa, don't be surprised if someone shows up to the ceremony dragging along a smelly goat.
A wide-scale examination of early Neolithic human skeletons reveals the violent history of a supposedly peaceful period.
Could the prevalence of flood myths around the world tell us something about early human migration or even the way our brains work?
“We suffer more often in the imagination than in reality.”
Most philosophers merely contemplate the world, but what about the ones who actually tried to change it?
Ancient humans crossed the Bering Strait land bridge from Asia into North America. But some of them went back.
X marks the spot. The Dutch town of Ommeren has been swamped by detectorists armed with shovels looking for $20-million treasure.
Far from practicing witchcraft, the experimentation of medieval alchemists helped bring about the Scientific Revolution.
Adopting a healthy scepticism towards inherited ideas means “emptying the container of the Self.”