For centuries, the name "Tartaria" or "Tartary" appeared on maps as a vast, mysterious region covering parts of Siberia, ...

Originally, it was consumed as a bitter drink by ancient civilizations like the Mayans and Aztecs, far from the sweet ...

Dive into ancient Khmer capitals, remote jungle cities and the real-life “Lost City” discovered by looters. From 10th-century ...

For much of their history, the people lived in easily accessible dwellings within the aforementioned canyons; however, around the middle of the 13th century CE, they began constructing protected ...

Across history, ancient civilizations crafted prototypes for many of the modern mechanisms that have become integral to contemporary life.

Generations of creatives have looked back to ancient Egypt in their search for art and design inspiration—here are three ...

And more recent research suggests beer was accidentally discovered as early as 10,000 B.C.E., or over 12,000 years ago by the ...

Artifacts from the Iron Age have revealed an intense historical magnetic anomaly in the Middle East. Could using a similar ...

And ancient Mediterranean cultures placed a great emphasis on predicting eclipse because emperors were supposed to be the personification of the sun, the University of Akron’s Gorogianni said.

Long before fancy serums in dropper bottles and $300 night creams, ancient civilizations had their own sophisticated approaches to achieving luminous, healthy skin. While we typically imagine ...

it’s alive and it’s up there at 11,000ft. the elevation is more than twice as high as denver. but experiencing peru’s ancient history up close is more than worth the threat of altitude sickness.

Civilizations have recognized the power of cities to heat themselves up and cool themselves for centuries. City architects in ancient Rome called for narrowing streets to lessen late afternoon ...