Growing up as a kid in the UK, one of the highlights of the week was the TV show Dr. Who, an early sci-fi show about a Time ...

Over 1,700 years ago, the ancient Greek Stoic philosopher, Epictetus, proposed an entirely different theory. He argued that it’s not life events that upset us, but our thoughts about them.

A glyph-breaker who didn’t break anything, and that is quite paradoxical, because, to be a true glyph-breaker, you should have deciphered an undeciphered script, like Jean-François Champollion (the ...

Dates: 3100 B.C. to 30 B.C. Writing: Hieroglyphics, a writing system that uses pictures; hieratic, a quicker type of "cursive"; and demotic, a written short-form script Ancient Egypt's gods ...

Rescuers work at the site of a high-rise building under construction that collapsed after a 7.7 magnitude earthquake in Bangkok, Thailand, early Saturday, March 29, 2025. (AP Photo/Wason ...

However, the discovery of this ancient statue—and exquisite preservation—was far from certain when the statue was first discovered lying face down in January 2024. “One problem with ...

Now, a farmer is reviving this ancient "superfood". It's a hot and muggy summer day in Sicily's Madonie mountains, a rugged range of ridges about 65km east of Palermo. In a field of ash trees ...

Who will be the next Griffin Herring? When it came to the bullpen, that was the question on LSU fans' minds heading into the season. Did the bullpen have someone who could throw multiple shutout ...

Interest in the Ark of the Covenant is surging after CIA documents resurfaced claiming that the agency had located the legendary relic using a psychic. The files from December 1988, which were ...

Researchers decades ago proposed that lightning caused chemical reactions in ancient Earth’s oceans and spontaneously produced the organic molecules. Now, new research published March 14 in the ...

A 2007 paper had previously suggested that Prototaxites was ancient fungi. Loron and colleagues reached this conclusion by “contrasting the anatomy and molecular composition of Prototaxites with ...