The idea of enjoying light dishes, drinks, and good company has existed for centuries. Explore one of the earliest cultures ...

NEW PHILADELPHIA ‒ Kira Rossi, a senior at New Philadelphia High School, has a wide variety of interests ‒ ancient cultures, languages, music and weird stories from history. Rossi, the daughter 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.

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 ...

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 ...

Long before electricity or modern machines, ancient civilizations engineered a brilliant system that produced ice and cooled entire buildings in extreme heat. Using wind flow, evaporation, and smart ...

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 ...

A graduate student at Oakland University is keeping an ancient language and heritage alive in the 21st Century. The Chaldean Language Workshop, a class founded by Stephen Hannawi, started meeting ...

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 ...

Both Egypt and China have such long histories; their ancient cultures are often compared. For example, China's Shang Dynasty ...

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 ...

Kira Rossi, a senior at New Philadelphia High School, loves learning about ancient Egypt and archaeology. She is fluent enough in French to be able to read and write in the language. Editor's Note: ...