History has a strange habit of forgetting its own brilliance. Civilizations rose, fell, and took entire libraries of ...

The Parthian Battery or Baghdad Battery is one of the most fascinating inventions of the ancient world preceding the ...

The Archimedes Palimpsest, a 10th century collection of the Greek mathematician’s treatises, changed hands many time—some ...

The newly opened Center for Islamic Civilization, located in Tashkent, the capital of Uzbekistan, has been recognized as one ...

Current evidence suggests that humans had the capacity for spoken language at least 130,000 years ago. Ever the ...

Throughout human history, certain inventions have fundamentally transformed the way we live, work, and interact with one ...

Human history demonstrates that every great advancement is built upon intellectual and spiritual foundations. Today, a ...

In Hungary’s capital, a city best known for its goulash, a pizzeria is inviting diners to travel back two millennia to a time ...

The JEC World exhibition provided an opportunity for Ignaas Verpoest and his co-editors Stepan Lomov, Yentl Swolfs and Mahoor Mehdikhani (KU Leuven, Belgium) to present their recently published book ...

I relish finding wines that are either located off the proverbial beaten path or feature an unusual or underappreciated grape ...

The familiar phenomenon has puzzled researchers for centuries, but experiments are finally making sense of its unruly ...

A rare 1,700-year-old discovery by archaeologists in Turkey highlights the use of advanced engineering of the Roman-era.