A group of students recently recreated a rice dish using an ancient recipe – and the results were unusual. The challenge was undertaken by researchers at the Yuelu Academy of Hunan University in ...

Or what remedies filled the medicine cabinets of pyramid builders? Turns out, one of ancient Egypt’s most treasured healing plants still exists today — and modern science is finally catching ...

Archaeologists have announced the discovery of 5,000-year-old remains apparently belonging to a high-society woman from an ancient Peruvian civilization. The tomb was found in Aspero, an area in ...

A procession of gods marches across the wall of what may have been a royal mausoleum near Hattusa, capital of the lost Hittite Empire. The ancient city—in what is today central Türkiye—was ...

Although it was known that Northern Arabia had played an important role in the evolution and cultural development of ancient humans, the poor preservation of organic remains and the desert-like ...

They reconstructed ancient seafloor topography using past sea level changes interpreted via glacial isostatic adjustment models. Using this reconstruction, they were able to simulate the tidal ...

They carry centuries of storytelling in their dough. From ancient gods to modern supermarkets, these sticky spiced buns have crossed many borders and beliefs. Today, you can buy them in all kinds ...

An installation view of “Myth and Marble: Ancient Roman Sculpture from the ... prestigious collection outside of Europe. Featuring gods and emperors alike, of the fifty-eight, twenty-four ...

In this region, sprawling channel networks stretch from the highlands and drain into ancient lakes — possibly even an ocean. NASA's Perseverance rover is currently exploring one of these sites ...

Within the framework of the Max Planck-Harvard Research Center for the Archaeoscience of the Ancient Mediterranean, co-directed by Johannes Krause, Director at the Max Planck Institute for ...

An ancient Middle Eastern civilization that developed an early alphabet spread its culture far and wide — but not its DNA, finds a 23 April Nature study 1 of hundreds of ancient human genomes.