The team then developed two ways to present ancient scents to the public. Alongside the artifacts that inspired this project, the team recreated the aromas of mummification in ancient Egypt. A ...

Ancient magnetic fossils reveal that animal navigation using Earth’s magnetic field may have evolved far earlier than ...

Ancient duplicated genes are giving scientists their first real clues about what life was like before all life on Earth shared a common ancestor.

Looks like limestone’s on the menu for some unknown microbe.

Ancient scientists can be easy to dismiss. Greek philosopher Thales of Miletus, often described as the West’s first scientist, believed the whole Earth was suspended on water. Roman encyclopaedist ...

Ancient Greek astronomers made important observations regarding the night sky long before the first ...

Synchrotron radiation has revealed a star map made by the ancient astronomer Hipparchus that was thought to be lost to time ...

Australian and New Zealand scientists have unearthed the remains of ancient wildlife in a cave near Waitomo on Aotearoa's ...

Scientists say two artifacts found at a lake shore in Greece are the oldest wooden tools uncovered so far.

The Ediacara Biota are some of the strangest fossils ever found—soft-bodied organisms preserved in remarkable detail where ...

These 430,000-year-old wooden tools from Greece are a rare find and provide a glimpse at the technical know-how of our early ...