Researchers extract plant residues from ancient bedrock metates, revealing insights into early diets and traditional plant ...

Archeologists recently uncovered an historic 1,600-year-old Jewish bath known as a mikveh in Ostia Antica, the archaeological ...

Do you recall the old saying that goes, "Divide and conquer,” a strategy for defeating an enemy that is said to go all the way back to ancient Babylonians? Well, in this case, victory for Canada ...

Simply put, pi is a mathematical constant that expresses the ratio of a circle's circumference to its diameter. It figures ...

Each year, on March 14, it's become traditional for numerophiles and mathematicians to pause and reflect on the most famous of irrational numbers, pi. Pronounced pie, written as π, and summed up ...

Since the ancient Babylonians knew how eclipses work, the person who made the Antikythera mechanism made it so that it has two dials that rotate to show both solar and lunar eclipses. But the most ...

Babylon Town officials recognized the Ancient Order of Hibernians in Babylon Village during March, which the town declared to be Irish-American month. They issued a proclamation and have directed that ...

As the centerpiece of your bedroom, a bed frame should fulfill a couple of key functions. In addition to being durable, it should look nice, too — or otherwise act as an unobtrusive foundation ...

Urmahlullu, the Babylonian creature that's half man and half lion. Bred for battle and to protect your rear! Prince Frederik dies from rare genetic condition at age 22. See his dad's emotional ...

This joyous celebration commemorates how ancient Jews were spared from massacre during the Persian Empire. In 2025 (or ה'5785 on the Hebrew calendar) Purim begins at sundown on Thursday, March 13, and ...

For centuries, historians and linguists have been searching for the cradle of the Indo-Europeans, an ancient people who shaped history and created the world’s largest language family ...