Our hunter-gatherer ancestors have given us many things. They passed down mastery of fire for cooking and early survival technologies, such as stone tools. They may also have given us the secret to a ...

Australian scientists have managed to crack the code of a mysterious 3,700-year-old Babylonian clay tablet, revealing a level of mathematical sophistication that pre-dates the ancient Greeks by a ...

The roof of the valley temple was most likely dedicated to astronomical observations and not to the celebration of the ...

Once all roads led to Rome, the law of the known world was meted out as Lex Romanum, and the peace of the world was maintained by Roman Legions parading Pax Romanum. But, it's also true that the ...

Shark was on the menu in Israel more than 6,000 years ago, archaeologists believe, after they uncovered one of the oldest known copper fishhooks in Askhelon. The fishhook was found in an agricultural ...

THE world’s oldest known spider silk has been found preserved in a piece of amber 130 million years old. While fossils reveal that spiders were equipped with silk-spinning glands as far back as 410 ...

Robert Gill is remembered for painstakingly documenting and painting the Ajanta murals at a time when the world was largely unaware of this Buddhist art. His detailed copies carried India’s ancient ...