Think about walking through ruins that have witnessed empires rise and fall, where kings once ruled and civilizations ...

Think ancient civilizations were primitive? The evidence suggests otherwise.From computers that tracked celestial events to ...

Our species emerged in Africa approximately a quarter of a million years ago and quickly spread across Eurasia, and eventually around the world. We started writing things down about 5,000 years ago, ...

Before modern science had a true understanding of what a solar eclipse is and how they work, ancient cultures had to form their own beliefs over what happened during this brief, but awesome, event.

NEW PHILADELPHIA ‒ Kira Rossi, a senior at New Philadelphia High School, has a wide variety of interests ‒ ancient cultures, languages, music and weird stories from history. Rossi, the daughter of ...

Roman, Egyptian, and Chinese civilizations had many different ingenious inventions. Chocolate was a big aphrodisiac for Mesoamerican civilizations and used for energy. The first earthquake detector is ...

Both Egypt and China have such long histories; their ancient cultures are often compared. For example, China's Shang Dynasty ...

The Milwaukee Public Museum is kicking off its final year at its current location with the first of five "Greatest Hits" exhibits. TMJ4 takes a look at the exhibit you can soon see for yourself.

It was common for ancient cultures to communally take hallucinogens, but this society did things much differently. An international team of archaeologists has revealed the role hallucinogenic drugs ...

Long before fancy serums in dropper bottles and $300 night creams, ancient civilizations had their own sophisticated approaches to achieving luminous, healthy skin. While we typically imagine ancient ...