Stretching across two-thirds of our planet, Asia harbors secrets that span millions of years of human history. From the ...

Long before clocks or written calendars existed, ancient farming communities faced a life-or-death problem; they needed to ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Our species emerged in Africa approximately a quarter of a million years ago and quickly spread across Eurasia, and eventually ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Image Credit: Shutterstock. Long before anyone could download a stargazing app or buy a telescope from a department store, ancient ...

Apparently, this approach for remembering grocery lists, house chores, deliveries, and the like was also a huge part of life ...

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 ...

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 ...

Credit: Zde, Wikimedia Commons, Public Domain Ancient DNA is helping scientists understand the origins of Bronze Age ...