Ancient texts reveal a pre-flood world of giants, advanced technology, and shared mythologies across cultures.

Our modern financial world has evolved to include the use of credit cards, online banking, and Venmo. But centuries before any of these tools existed, ancient civilizations had their own way of ...

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.

Timothy P. Harrison, a renowned academic leader and scholar with decades of research experience in the Middle East, has been appointed director of the University of Chicago’s Institute for the Study ...

Ancient civilizations definitely feel distant on paper. Their influence still appears almost everywhere in modern entertainment. Stories from Ancient civilizations continue to shape the worlds people ...

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See more of our trusted coverage when you search. Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. The June solstice is fast approaching. But how did ancient cultures ...

History is filled with brilliant minds who gave us mathematics, philosophy, and architectural wonders that still amaze us today. Yet these same civilizations also held beliefs so bizarre that they ...

SAN DIEGO — The total solar eclipse is one week away. Before there was scientific reasoning behind the astronomical event, there were cultural myths and superstitions for why the sun disappeared. Long ...

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 ...

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 ...

Our ancient ancestors have done some interesting things to human bones over the years, but one example from the Iron Age Iberian Peninsula is a real puzzle. There, in multiple locations, ...