The research, published in the journal Antiquity by archaeologist and professional trumpet player Miquel López-García and his colleague Margarita Díaz-Andreu from the University of Barcelona, examined ...

Dick Van Dyke, 99, names the two things to avoid to live a long life Sea lion surprises swimmers near Victoria, B.C.

If you hold a sheet of paper up to the light, it looks almost weightless — thin, soft, and easy to tear. Yet this simple ...

Examination of an ancient alabaster vase in the Yale Peabody Museum’s Babylonian Collection has revealed traces of opiates, providing the clearest evidence to date of broad opium use in ancient ...

Latest advancements in technology are aiding archaeological and anthropological research. A new EU-funded robot is helping archaeologists reassemble Pompeii's frescoes, while scientists have ...

The humble plant that grows in the Nile had a huge impact on the written word in ancient Egypt, Greece and Rome and thereby on the cultures of the rest of the world. A small museum in Cairo shows how ...

Archaeologists excavating the remains of a Roman city in Portugal have discovered a rare bronze inkwell filled with the ...

In the 4th century BC, the Greek engineer Aeneas of Stymphalus devised a groundbreaking communication system known as the hydraulic telegraph. This ancient invention utilized synchronized water clocks ...

As Africa now stands on the threshold of the Fourth Industrial Revolution, it must reclaim that ancient mathematical genius — ...

Donkor The phrase Deus ex machina, Latin for “God from the machine,” once described a stage trick in ancient theatre, when a god was lowered onto the stage to resolve a story’s conflict. But what if, ...

Some 39,000 years ago, a woolly mammoth died in present-day Siberia, destined to be blanketed by ice and permafrost that would end up preserving its body — even down to the hair and muscle. Now, that ...

A mysterious deep-sea creature has just helped scientists solve a long-standing evolutionary puzzle. The vampire squid—an ...