"Beer is a quintessential Mesopotamian food stuff ... It really defines Mesopotamian identities in many ways." ...

The team headed to Harvard University’s Peabody Museum in Cambridge, where they were granted permission to collect the yeast ...

With the head of a lion, the body of a woman, and near uncontrollable blood lust, Sekhmet stands out as one of ancient Egypt’s most fearsome and revered goddesses. Associated with the sun god Ra, and ...

Love is in the air at the historic Whittington Hall in the English county of Lancashire. In 2023, a metal detectorist searching near the grounds discovered a gold ring bearing the words “present my ...

In most Christian churches across the West, the Virgin Mary is portrayed with light skin, much like her son Jesus Christ. But an estimated 400 to 500 versions of the Madonna portray her with dark skin ...

In terms of our contemporary climate crisis, looking to the future often seems to be the wisest course of action. Some say that we face the disastrous collapse of ecosystems and irreversible ...

Dead bodies aren’t typically known for smelling good, but according to a new study, the carefully embalmed bodies of ancient Egyptian mummies are an exception. The study, published in the Journal of ...

On May 5, 2017, 18-year-old Brooke Skylar Richardson attended her senior prom at her high school in Carlisle, Ohio. Less than 48 hours later, she secretly gave birth to a baby girl in her bathroom at ...

During a recent building restoration project in the historic district of Trento, Italy, archaeologists uncovered an ancient necropolis dating back to pre-Roman times. Further excavations have revealed ...

Suspended in a sunbeam, a tiny speck of light we all call home reminds us of our shared fragility and the vastness of the cosmos. This speck, seen in Voyager 1’s famous “Pale Blue Dot” image, shows ...

The 1915 silent film The Heart of Lincoln has long been listed by the Library of Congress as one of the 7,000 pre-sound movies that’s been lost to history. But thanks to a sharp-eyed intern at the ...

Throughout history, fashion has served as a powerful symbol of status, and few examples are as remarkable as garments woven with gold. In 2020, archaeologists excavating an ancient burial ground in ...