But that's not quite right. Some ancient cultures managed to develop some bafflingly complex and sophisticated inventions using techniques and knowledge that seemed to come out of nowhere ...

Head of Amasis II from the Berlin Museum, Germany, the king in whose reign many Egyptians fled to Greek islands. Credit: Wikimedia Commons, CC-BY 4.0 Evidence indicates that ancient Egyptians migrated ...

Researchers have identified traces of psychedelic substances, bodily fluids, and alcohol in a 2,000-year-old mug, providing evidence that ancient Egyptians consumed hallucinogenic beverages during ...

Some inventions are thanks to one eureka moment ... Evidence suggests that as early as 700 B.C., people in ancient Egypt noticed that they could look through crystals to improve vision.

I suspect that many of the artists in this exhibition wouldn’t admire the reality of ancient Egypt, either. This was all about invention, projection and a splash of utopian fantasy, rather like ...

Recent archaeological research unveiled that ancient Egyptians consumed a ritual drink combining fruits, nuts, psychedelics, bodily fluids, and alcohol, as discovered in a 2,000-year-old Bes mug.

That was when he noticed, on a list of the museum’s holdings, a cup from the second century B.C. bearing the face of Bes, a notoriously ugly ancient Egyptian god who was fond of revelry.

Legends, myths, and intriguing archaeological finds suggest ancient Egyptians once visited Ireland. Could DNA findings answer long-held questions regarding a possible link between ancient ...

Researchers have discovered the residues of psychedelic drugs, bodily fluids and alcohol inside a 2,000-year-old mug, suggesting that ancient Egyptians imbibed hallucinogenic beverages during rituals.

"A gold medal of mummies from the Ptolemaic era [were found] as well as a number of ancient Egyptian texts and landscapes….represent[ing] a great addition to the history of the region and ...

An AI-powered toilet seat has been named by Time Magazine as one of the top 200 inventions of 2024. It optically scans a user’s stool and urine, to detect any concerning changes that might indicate a ...