Researchers have found chemical evidence of wine consumption in ancient Troy, confirming a theory by Heinrich Schliemann.

Wine drinking in ancient Troy was not restricted to the upper classes, as has long been supposed – something our new research ...

Thinking back on the books I had read during 2024 I was struck by patterns I hadn’t noticed at the time I read them. I found books talking to each other, whether their authors intended it, or not.

These seven horses are the seven colors compromising light These seven colors become visible in a rainbow or when light passes through a prism Vedic literature used large numbers and employed modern ...

Zionism and the Arabs Moshe Smilansky, a founder of Rehovot in 1890, became intimately familiar with Arabs in the country. He ...

Environmental stress in evolution can be reframed as a powerful engine of innovation, not simply a barrier to survival.

After the immense international success of "La Disparition de Josef Mengele", Olivier Guez returns with "Mesopotamia" – a novel about Gertrude Bell, a young lady from Victorian high society who became ...

When a vast library of texts amassed by Mesopotamian King Ashurbanipal was burned to the ground about 2700 years ago, the ...

There are a lot of perceptions of American culture and daily life by people who don't live in the US, especially these days. And while some may be true, others are just myths. So when redditor ...

Skeletal analysis at Tombos, an ancient Egyptian colonial settlement in Nubia, reveals a more complex labor and social ...

Life needs sufficient phosphorus. However, the element is scarce, not only today but also at the time of the origin of life. So where was there sufficient phosphorus four billion years ago for life to ...

Who were our earliest ancestors? The answer could lie in a special group of single-celled organisms with a cytoskeleton similar to that of complex organisms, such as animals and plants.