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Ancient Egyptians were not only masters of architecture – they also were the original wizards of synthetic chemistry. Around ...

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Team finds China’s Buddhist and Taoist temples host higher concentration of old trees – some dating back 1,000 years – than anywhere else.

Created 5,000 years ago, the mysterious color has been found on artworks and artifacts throughout the ancient world. But the ...

A gold shilling located by a metal detectorist near Norwich may be no larger than a fingernail, but it wields quite a bit of ...

Researchers surveying Michigan’s Sixty Islands archaeological site have found ancient evidence of farming by the Indigenous ...

Acupuncture, an ancient healing therapy involving the insertion of fine needles into specific body points, is experiencing a ...

Scientists announced the discovery of a new species of early tyrannosaur in a museum vault in Mongolia, an ancestor to ...

The groundbreaking new study challenges assumptions about carbon cycles and raises new concerns about climate change.

A quiet revolution is underway in India’s top universities, where a new generation of healers is emerging—students who move ...

Commoners in the Roman Empire frequently snacked on inexpensive fried songbirds at roadside shops, archaeologists said after ...