The pigment “Egyptian Blue” was invented about 5,000 years ago. It’s the world’s oldest known synthetic pigment. But it was lost to time, until recently. Scientists at Washington State ...

Humans and our ancestors have been creating tools, art, and everyday objects for millions of years, and each unexpected ...

The game includes accurate details and real historical figures to help anyone learn more about the period. You could meet famous people like Queen Hatshepsut, Leonardo da Vinci, and Thomas Jefferson, ...

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

Buddhist temples in China are home to trees from dozens of endangered species, a new study shows. Some of them are almost 2,000 years old. A Phoebe zhennan tree, about 400 years old, in the Wen-Qi ...

Now, researchers at the University of Oxford’s Nuffield Department of Medicine have developed a groundbreaking method to extract and analyze proteins from ancient soft tissues. This new approach, ...

3 ancient Egyptian tombs dating to the New Kingdom discovered near Luxor . Secret of ancient Maya blue pigment revealed from cracks and clues on a dozen bowls from Chichén Itz ...

Evidence suggests the tools were used by the human relative Paranthropus, which scientists previously believed relied only on its teeth and jaws to eat. Scientists have unearthed more than 300 ...

This ethereal forest is also scattered with archaeological features, from ancient trackways to the remains of an old mill, and the trails feature epic views over the Severn Estuary.

Studying Ancient Animal Remains Megafauna, such as woolly mammoths, moas, and giant sloths, went extinct some 50,000 to 10,000 years ago, leaving behind few fossilized remains. Pulling DNA to identify ...