Long before sticky notes and smartphone reminders, the people of ancient Egypt recorded their shopping lists, school ...

Studying ancient history means encountering some unsettling traditions. For me, that included learning about “sunjang,” a ...

Seleucus of Seleucia was an ancient astronomer who defended heliocentrism, arguing that Earth orbits the Sun and rotates on ...

Buddhism truly began to flourish in Japan beginning in the sixth century CE after monks arrived from mainland China and Korea ...

There is something quietly humbling about standing before an ancient artifact and realizing, with all of our satellites, ...

The corroded fragments of that device, known today as the Antikythera mechanism, have become a touchstone for how much ancient science achieved and how much of it we have lost. I see in this “first ...

About 1,500 years ago, in what is now South Korea, a gruesome practice known as ‘sunjang’ dictated that servants, retainers, ...

Researchers have recreated the world's oldest synthetic pigment, called Egyptian blue, which was used in ancient Egypt about 5,000 years ago. A team of Washington State University-led researchers has ...

In 89 BCE, Rome dispatched forces under the command of general Lucius Cornelius Sulla to lay siege to the city. It was one of ...

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 ...

Ancient Korea had people from ‘sacrificial caste’ killed to please royalty, skeletons reveal - Findings offer first large-scale evidence of social structure during Silla Kingdom ...