The team then developed two ways to present ancient scents to the public. Alongside the artifacts that inspired this project, ...

Before telescopes, ancient Greek astronomers relied on naked-eye observations of the night sky to understand the universe ...

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2,000-year-old vial containing brown flakes has been found to hold dried human faeces and thyme ...

Ancient scientists can be easy to dismiss. Greek philosopher Thales of Miletus, often described as the West’s first scientist, believed the whole Earth was suspended on water. Roman encyclopaedist ...

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Geologists have found that an ancient meteorite hit Scotland 200 million years later than previously thought, which has massive implications for the geological history of the region and some of the ...

Kerala Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan on Sunday warned against attempts to glorify superstition and regressive practices by projecting irrational stories from myths and legends as ancient scientific ...

A groundbreaking discovery from ancient DNA has solved a longstanding puzzle regarding two prehistoric individuals, revealing ...

Ancient Romans had a big appetite for a certain kind of fish sauce – and a new study is revealing exactly what went into it. Researcher Gonçalo Themudo published his findings in the journal Antiquity ...

Long before farming took hold, ancient Indigenous peoples of the American Southwest were already shaping the future of a wild ...