A young woman buried in China’s Tarim Basin some 2,000 years ago went to the afterlife accompanied by the height of fashion. The woman, who was wrapped in a felt blanket and buried in a coffin ...

New archaeological evidence is helping rewrite old myths about disabled people in the ancient world. Early Roman Empire depiction of a Freedman and Freedwoman, 30-15 BCE. British Museum, London, UK.

The origins of domestic cats — centuries before they conquered the world’s sofas and internet memes — have long been murky. Now, ancient DNA is helping to fill in the blanks, and the findings shake up ...

Identifying signs of life in ancient rocks is hard. It is not enough to find organic molecules—rocks of all sorts contain them but “organic” just means the molecules contain chains of carbon atoms.

New research reveals Peru’s Band of Holes once functioned as a marketplace before becoming Inca accounting infrastructure. Drone imaging and microbotanical analyses found maize and reed residues, ...

A quest to discover new antibiotics is taking a Cal Poly biochemistry research team back in time millions of years as they study ancient microorganisms. Research led by Cal Poly biochemistry Professor ...

Memoir is an intimate art form. As the reader, you are brought into experiences of personal exaltation and pain, which, being real, have a special authority even when the author has edited or artfully ...

The Great Pyramid of Giza—the largest of Egypt’s pyramids—consists of about 2.3 million limestone blocks. The smallest of these weigh two tons, while the largest weigh over 60. History says laborers ...

The Walmart store in Elm Ridge Center in Greece has been revamped for the first time since opening in 1991. The work included changing the floorplan and upgrading the fixtures, “so it looks modern and ...

I took a 13-hour overnight ferry from Athens to Lésbos and booked a private room on the ship. My cabin had a queen-size bed, a private bathroom, and a living room area. The private room was worth the ...

The footage offers an unprecedentedly colorful look at the extreme physics at play—revealing valuable information for researchers studying fusion. Reading time 2 minutes Nuclear fusion may always be ...