NASA's Curiosity Mars rover took this selfie at a location nicknamed "Mary Anning" after a 19th century English ...

No other ancient historian has written a book so insightful on the mechanisms of war as Thucydides' History of the Peloponnesian War.

Studying ancient history means encountering some unsettling traditions. For me, that included learning about “sunjang,” a ...

There is something quietly humbling about standing before an ancient artifact and realizing, with all of our satellites, supercomputers, and electron microscopes, we still have no clue how it was made ...

Recently uncovered damage to walls in Pompeii displays patterns that may have been made by an ancient “machine gun” called a ...

New method also detects molecular signs of photosynthesis almost 1 billion years earlier than previously documented; Combining chemistry and AI, pioneering method could revolutionize search for ...

We like to think we're the smartest humans who've ever lived. We've got AI, quantum computers, and rockets that land ...

Stephen has degrees in science (Physics major) and arts (English Literature and the History and Philosophy of Science), as well as a Graduate Diploma in Science Communication. Stephen has degrees in ...

Ancient DNA and protein analysis reveal that modern Old Irish Goats are closely related to Bronze Age populations. This ...

Nearly 70 years ago, archaeologists discovered an ancient suit of armor beneath one of the island nation’s most prominent ...