There were muses specifically for comedy, tragedy and even erotica. The oldest was Calliope, mother of the legendary musician ...

At a prehistoric site in İzmir, Turkey, archaeologists have uncovered an 8,200-year-old kohl pen. It is believed to be the ...

“But unlike today's typists, no one designed proper chairs for ancient Egyptian scribes.” Gripping their pens and repeated use also left tell-tale marks on the right thumb. Beyond that, it’s possible ...

Many learned wood-working at an early age, taught by fathers and grandfathers, but some started after they retired from the military or civilian jobs. They trained on machines that spat splinters and ...

For thousands of years, Nuwä people of the Tehachapi Mountains and surrounding areas collected acorns from local oak trees ...

This ancient Roman road, stretching from Neath on the south coast of Wales to Conwy on the north coast, is a unique, ...

Don’t most people have a yearning to know how clever, or stupid, they are? Well, perhaps they do if they are astute enough, ...

The Phaistos disk from circa 1700 B.C. The signs were not engraved using a stylus but rather pressed onto the wet clay using molds or seals in a kind of ancient typesetting. One of the great ...

Sep. 25, 2024 — Scientists successfully extracted and analyzed DNA from ancient cheese samples found alongside the Tarim Basin mummies in China, dating back approximately 3,600 years.

Author Vishnul Jain award-winning series, “The Future King,” not only redefines the Arthurian legend but infuses it with a ...

Titled “Reconstruction of the population history of South Asia using ancient and modern genomics”, the project will study 300 ...