Using advanced machine learning and climate models, researchers have shown that the ancestors of crops like wheat, barley, and rye probably were much less widespread in the Middle East 12,000 years ...

The General Sherman tree, located in Sequoia National Park, holds the title of the largest tree by volume, an ancient giant that continues to awe visitors with its immense size and resilience.

The city of Naucratis was the earliest ancient Greek colony in Egypt that served as the connecting and trading post between ...

The Greeks of Cappadocia, in central-eastern Anatolia, created their own flourishing culture in ancient times that thrived ...

Are you a fan of cartography but curious to see the world through a different lens? Have you ever wondered how many blue ...

Part I of the Polar Nexus Series: Reconstructing the ancient world that existed long before recorded history and left its fingerprints on every early civilization.

Alexander the Great conquered the region around 329 B.C.E., leaving behind Greek and Macedonian settlers who intermarried ...

A “forgotten Alexandria” on the Tigris is being pulled back into focus by archaeologists using drones and geophysics, revealing what appears to have been a vast, carefully planned metropolis in ...

Long forgotten and hidden under layers of religious texts, the world’s earliest star catalog has just resurfaced. Scientists have managed to pull fragments of it from a 1,500-year-old manuscript by ...

Researchers using a synchrotron at the SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory have been able to recover pieces of the Hipparchus star catalog that had been overwritten.

A map can take you on a journey, transporting you across continents and cultures all with a single glance. What started as a simple map drawing on a clay tablet centuries ago in Babylon has slowly ...

Alexander Mosaic, c. 100 B.C.E., Roman copy of a lost Greek painting, House of the Faun, Pompeii. When Mount Vesuvius buried Pompeii under a torrent of ash in A.D. 79, it also preserved one of the ...