More than 2,000 years ago, Greek artisans built a compact machine of interlocking gears that could track the heavens with a ...

It’s wild to think that a math puzzle from the 1200s is now helping power AI, encryption, and the digital world we live in.

Radiance" reflects the artist's investigations into ultra-contemporary materials and ancient Japanese cosmologies.

A thirty-year scientific partnership between archaeologists and the Kuikuro people, in the Xingu Indigenous Territory in Mato ...

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They built four models through which it could distinguish things with biological antecedents from things which lacked them. The oldest sample they identified as biological was 3.3bn years old—twice ...

WASHINGTON — Ancient DNA has revealed a genetic link between the cultures of ancient Egypt and Mesopotamia, according to research published Wednesday in the journal Nature. Researchers sequenced whole ...

A new genetic study of the ancient Chinese city of Shimao reveals a strictly patrilineal society that practised ...

For several hours on a recent Friday morning, a Yale laboratory became a Bronze Age brewery. Inside the lab, in the Yale Chemistry Research Building, a group of students attempted to recreate beers of ...

Classics is the study of all aspects of the life and culture of ancient Greece and Rome in their Mediterranean context and their enduring relevance to our lives. The Department of Classics offers all ...

NASA’s Bennu samples have revealed life-linked sugars, a mysterious gum-like substance and even grains of ancient stardust.