The Hebrew Bible (Tanakh) recounts the story of Ishmael with striking clarity. Genesis 25 lists his twelve sons and locates ...

Staff at the international science and education exhibition area of the 2025 Beijing International Week for Science Literacy ...

Recent findings from ancient Korean texts provide fascinating evidence of early compass use. This discovery sheds new light ...

Paleoanthropologist Ella Al-Shamahi travels the world digging into the origin of Homo sapiens in a five-part BBC series ...

From the Antikythera Mechanism to Tesla’s so-called earthquake machine, history is full of inventions that vanished too soon.

A Roman-era stele in Thessaloniki, Greece, revives debate on the “devil’s horns” gesture, exploring its origins across cultures.

For many people, Greek mythology begins and ends with a few familiar faces. The musclebound hero--known as Hercules or ...

The ambitious scientist Nikola Tesla is about to showcase the mysterious—at the time near-magical—power of ...

For decades, the wristwatch has ruled as the ultimate men’s accessory. It was never just about keeping time—it was about ...

After analyzing a ceramic lamp unearthed from a Ming Dynasty (1368-1644) tomb in North ­China's Shanxi Province, researchers ...

How old is your food? Before food was a choice, it was a necessity — the bare minimum only eaten and endured in order to ...

From cutlery that's now considered crucial to appliances that have revolutionised the way we cook, these genius food inventions were all fiercely mocked when they first appeared.