As people celebrate the beginning of the new Chinese lunar year, the Year of the Snake, what do snakes symbolize in mythology ...

Since the earliest civilizations, humans have believed that the Earth itself carries protective power. Stones, formed deep ...

Roman, Egyptian, and Chinese civilizations had many different ingenious inventions. Chocolate was a big aphrodisiac for Mesoamerican civilizations and used for energy. The first earthquake detector is ...

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.

Receiving a prestigious fellowship from the American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS), Visiting Assistant Professor of Classics Maddalena Rumor will work on a manuscript for a book currently titled ...

Long before fancy serums in dropper bottles and $300 night creams, ancient civilizations had their own sophisticated approaches to achieving luminous, healthy skin. While we typically imagine ancient ...

Examination of an ancient alabaster vase in the Yale Peabody Museum’s Babylonian Collection has revealed traces of opiates, providing the clearest evidence to date of broad opium use in ancient ...

We like to look at human history as a series of showdowns of right versus wrong. To make that convenient, some civilizations have been labeled barbarians, savages and absolute downright dirty dogs ...

Ancient Egyptian bust. How did ancient cultures view the mind, the brain, and their relationships? Source: Julia Kadel | Unsplash The German psychologist Hermann Ebbinghaus wrote in 1908 that ...