Mercury, the only metal that remains liquid at room temperature, has fascinated humans for millennia. From ancient Egypt to Mesoamerica and China, civilizations had access to this mesmerizing ...

Ancient China began as a group of isolated communities during the Stone Age and eventually grew into a formidable empire. Ancient Chinese people developed their own writing system and several ...

And if archaeology hadn't emerged in the 18th century, many of these civilizations would have ... these "gardens" to calculate the yield of the ancient islanders' crops. However, Davis and his ...

However, many people don’t know that what’s notable about these technologies is that they have some form of historical ancestor that ancient civilizations created centuries before today.

By counting grains – hundreds to thousands per sample – scientists can statistically build pictures of ancient vegetation, the species present, their abundances, and how the composition of ...

In the Algerian desert, dazzling alfresco galleries provide an eloquent record of ancient civilizations ... naturalistic pictures of piebald (irregularly colored) cattle, recalling the transition ...

But what about using AI to explore the past—and talk to members of long-dead civilizations ... say, you know, ancient Romans or Vikings or medieval Persians. And one thing that really excited ...

No one would dispute the desirability of the possibility of an examination of the social thought of the ancient civilizations, especially after reading the very able book of Prof. Hertzler.