Using drones and Google Earth imagery, archaeologists have discovered a 4,000-year-old network of earthen canals in what’s ...

Magnetism itself may have given our solar system the architecture needed for habitability. A team at the University of Oxford ...

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A recent genetic study calls for a reexamination of the identities and relationships of several individuals buried and ...

WASHINGTON — Long before the ancient Maya built temples, their predecessors were already altering the landscape of Central America’s Yucatan peninsula. Using drones and Google Earth imagery, ...

New Curtin University-led research has uncovered what may be the oldest direct evidence of ancient hot water activity on Mars ...

Contrary to the "strength and honor" depicted in Hollywood films "Gladiator" and "Gladiator II," some ancient Romans ...

Cicero’s career was both marked and made by the constitutional crises that characterized the last decades of the Roman republic. In several of his speeches from the period, he characterized the ...

The study, conducted by University of South Florida professor Davide Tanassi, examined the inside of a 2,000-year-old mug.

“Flight Into Egypt: Black Artists and Ancient Egypt 1876–Now” highlights almost 200 ... Beyond the visual works, however, the ...

Delphi, the new novel by Australian author Karen Martin, inspired by ancient Greece, answers questions for the modern woman.

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