Numbers are a fundamental part of our everyday lives, shaping the way we measure, trade, and keep track of time. While most ...

A team from Heidelberg University excavating in Iraq made a spectacular find: In the throne room of the North Palace of King ...

Using statistical methods from field of ecological biodiversity, Israeli scholars analyze 1,000 First Temple period names and ...

King Djoser of Egypt ordered his chief architect, Imhotep, to design a tomb like no other - The Step Pyramid of Djoser.

Humans started counting tens of thousands of years ago, but when did they begin figuring out advanced arithmetic, algebra and ...

Conceptual problems, ideology clashes and xenophobia prevented the concept of zero from catching on for a long time. Today ...

Even in ancient times, mankind grappled with all of these problems. When things got really bad, they would put a curse ...

Archaeologists recently announced the discovery of over 100 buried horses dating back to ancient Rome – but the skeletons weren't found in Italy. The excavation took place at Bad Cannstatt ...

Archaeologists have, for the first time, identified what seem to be tools used by the ancient Maya for tattooing 1. The civilization of the ancient Maya, who lived in what is now Mexico and ...

The cartridges were first used in 2005. NBC also noted the tradition of white or black smoke isn't particularly ancient and dates back to the early 1900s. What is the importance of white or black ...

Around 2,500 years ago, a princess living in what is now modern-day Iraq collected a number of artefacts ... Al-Rashid is careful to note the limits of the evidence used to build this vivid picture of ...