In antiquity and now, inconsistency and illogicality lie at the heart of the human effort to imagine what happens when we’re dead ...

Excavations on unpromising mounds in the Iraqi desert revealed Sumer’s earliest city. Surviving relics and a rebuilt temple have given experts more clues about the ancient metropolis of Eridu.

New research suggests ancient Mars may have been warm and wet, with rainfall or snowmelt carving its iconic valleys.

The Olympic flame still burns brightly in Ancient Olympia in the Peloponnese, where the modern-day games have their Greek ...

To study this history, population geneticist Harald Ringbauer at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in ...

Remains of what may be the ancient capital city of the Kingdom of Lyncestis have been found in North Macedonia.

One such ancient story centers on the bronze sentry Talos. Forged by Hephaestus, the Greek god of smiths and artisans, Talos ...

The Romans did have status symbols, just like we do. Portable sundials weren’t very useful or precise, but they said a lot ...

April 22, Earth Day is celebrated once again as over one billion people help the Earth recover from the ravages of ...

The Italian Space Agency has picked European company Blue Skies Space to build a fleet of satellites around the moon to map ...

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Meals are seasonal feasts, and the spa is classic Six Senses, melding modern science with traditional healing—in this case, ancient ... on the map. Conjured by the brand known for its sea-level beachy ...