S ome groups of European Neanderthals may have lost the ability to make fire during the colder periods of their existence. As ...

Traces of a toxic chemical found on 60,000-year-old arrowheads hint at advanced planning by Palaeolithic hunters.

History has long celebrated its ancient world pioneers, yet many great deeds of overlooked figures have faded with their names.

Artificial intelligence (AI) has brought ancient languages to life, such as Ancient Greek and Old English, by demonstrating ...

Hammocks helped Europeans survive the tropics during colonization. But this ancient Indigenous innovation has been erased ...

Danyah Miller responds to a pass notes column about companies that are hiring people to ‘own the narrative’ Your article on the rise of storytelling as a corporate skill (Pass notes, 17 December) ...

Sometimes, you stumble upon an invention that makes you wonder, "How did they even think of this back then?" Some ideas were way ahead of their time, only to be forgotten or overshadowed by newer ...

Long before the Black Death killed millions across Europe in the Middle Ages, an earlier, more elusive version of the plague spread across much of Eurasia. For years, scientists were unsure how the ...

America hasn’t had a major Etruscan exhibition since 2009, when Dallas’s Meadows Museum hosted “New Light on the Etruscans.” That changes in May 2026, when San Francisco’s Legion of Honor museum ...

Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent every weekday. Terms of Service and Privacy Policy. The city of Rome has been inhabited continuously for 14,000 years ...

One of the first things people think when they think about whole grains is “healthy.” That may go double for “ancient grains,” which are the same today as they were hundreds of years ago. Once largely ...

The Romans were great admirers of the Greeks and their civilization. The emperor Nero, for instance, was a Philhellene who travelled extensively around Greece and even gave a huge tax-exemption to the ...