This video explores the Gupta Empire, often regarded as the Golden Age of Classical India. We trace its rise under Chandragupta I and Samudragupta, the flourishing of art, science, and literature, and ...

Ancient bones, artifacts and texts offer numerous insights into the past, as does the chewing gum that Neolithic people ...

Throughout most of Earth's geological history, its paleoclimate has remained hospitable to life—largely thanks to continental ...

Archaeologists working in Turkey's ancient city of Olympos have uncovered a remarkable 200-square-meter Byzantine bathhouse that offers unprecedented insights into early Christian leadership. This ...

There is a long tradition of performers who balance creative work with serious academic achievements. Some have advanced ...

Researchers have unearthed South America’s first amber deposits containing ancient insects in an Ecuadorian quarry, offering ...

The ancient Greeks believed friendship was far more serious than a few hours of chatting and banter with your best friends.

When the Nobel committee called, Fred Ramsdell did not pick up. Plus, searching ancient archaea for solutions to modern antibiotic resistance.

Finding 9,000-year-old organic remains in eastern Norway is extraordinarily rare due to acidic soil conditions that typically destroy such materials quickly. The exceptional preservation at Horten has ...