India, Jan. 18 -- India is a tapestry of cultures, each of which is kept alive through millennia. Different types of weather as well. Trivandrum is a world apart from Gurugram, which has been feeling ...

Long before telescopes and space travel, ancient civilizations had incredibly creative ideas about what the universe looked ...

Before modern science had a true understanding of what a solar eclipse is and how they work, ancient cultures had to form their own beliefs over what happened during this brief, but awesome, event.

Roman, Egyptian, and Chinese civilizations had many different ingenious inventions. Chocolate was a big aphrodisiac for Mesoamerican civilizations and used for energy. The first earthquake detector is ...

The June solstice is fast approaching. But how did ancient cultures mark this astronomical event? The Northern Hemisphere's summer solstice marks the longest day of the year and the beginning of ...

SAN DIEGO — The total solar eclipse is one week away. Before there was scientific reasoning behind the astronomical event, there were cultural myths and superstitions for why the sun disappeared. Long ...

Timothy P. Harrison, a renowned academic leader and scholar with decades of research experience in the Middle East, has been appointed director of the University of Chicago’s Institute for the Study ...

Examination of an ancient alabaster vase in the Yale Peabody Museum’s Babylonian Collection has revealed traces of opiates, providing the clearest evidence to date of broad opium use in ancient ...

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It was common for ancient cultures to communally take hallucinogens, but this society did things much differently. An international team of archaeologists has revealed the role hallucinogenic drugs ...

Kira Rossi, a senior at New Philadelphia High School, loves learning about ancient Egypt and archaeology. She is fluent enough in French to be able to read and write in the language. Editor's Note: ...