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Are hieroglyphs really as indecipherable as they look? Here is a primer on how to start interpreting these ancient motifs.

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The mysterious Sibylline Books were secretly kept Greek oracle collections that the rulers of ancient Rome consulted in times ...

Fossilized teeth show that two different kinds of ancient human ancestors coexisted more than 2 million years ago. One of ...

A centurion wearing sneakers and shades? AI image generators sometimes take serious liberties with history. Researchers in ...

The discovery sheds new light on the Plague of Justinian, which may have killed 50 million people during the sixth century.

Constantin “The Castor” Lapusneanu, a well-known Romanian tattoo artist and the man behind the Getodava historical ...