Iron Age teeth fossils reveal diversity of diet of ancient Italians - Findings offer strong evidence that ancient Italians regularly consumed fermented food and beverages ...

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.

India, Jan. 18 -- India is a tapestry of cultures, each of which is kept alive through millennia. Different types of weather ...

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 ...

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“The charm of history and its enigmatic lesson consist in the fact that, from age to age, nothing changes and yet everything is completely different.” Aldous Huxley Interest in aging and the ...

From the oracle bone scripts of ancient China to the hieroglyphs of Egypt and the philosophical traditions of ancient Greece, ...

The stone carving could be thousands of years old, possibly from the Bronze Age.

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