They would polish the stone to a mirror finish, catching the sun's rays with a brilliance befitting its purpose as a solar clock. Numerous ancient Egyptian obelisks remain standing today ...

Archaeologists note that around the year 2,900 B.C., a “darkened Sun” would’ve been only one of the worries of these ancient people—DNA suggests that plague was also running rampant ...

Ancient water clocks, or clepsydras, are a fascinating fusion of history, science, and art. These millennia-old mechanisms offer a glimpse into the past, revealing the ingenious ways ancient ...

For years, an elaborately displayed tooth at the Art Institute of Chicago has been thought to belong to the major Christian religious figure John the Baptist. As it turns out, that claim has no teeth.

Researchers took samples from the tooth in 2016. The results, not widely disseminated, showed it was from someone in the 5th ...

causing a Neolithic Danish community to offer sun stones in the hope of bringing back the light and saving their crops. Archaeologists discovered these enigmatic ancient stones on the island of ...

Dec. 5, 2024 — Researchers have tested ancient DNA from corn found at archaeological sites in Arkansas, shedding new light on the dispersal of one of the world's ... We Might Feel Love in Our ...

This real-life clash of the titans was once used as a morale booster for Ottoman troops and now draws visitors from all over ...

Scientists from the University of Copenhagen—drawing on research of 60,000 years of volcanic activity derived from ice cores from Greenland and Antarctica—have re-contextualized an ancient ...

He and his colleagues say that burying the carvings could have been an attempt to get the sun back or a celebration after the skies did finally clear. How the secrets of ancient cuneiform texts ...

The intricate carvings of ancient Indian temples feature zodiac symbols with cosmic precision, showcasing the ancient understanding of astrology. These symbols were used for spiritual and ritualistic ...

Artem Shuba via Unsplash Nearly 5,000 years ago, if the ground rumbled and the sky grew dark, it would be impossible for ancient agricultural ... to bring back the sun. On the island of Bornholm ...