When we think of modern innovations, we often picture digital devices, advanced medicine, or sleek engineering. But what if many of the ideas we call “modern” were already in use thousands of years ...

Spiders, parchment, bone and complex math were among the methods ancient ... a practice that dates to 3000 BCE Mesopotamia), the Ancient Greek oracles surviving as revered papyrus parchments ...

Here, we explore six notable civilizations that have collapsed, shedding light on some of the causes behind their demise and ...

Imagine being able to travel back thousands of years, not with a time machine, but through the words our ancestors spoke. It ...

Many Americans see it as the pivotal episode in the history of U.S.-Iranian relations ... and Persian scientists were studying mathematics, medicine and astronomy. Over the centuries, the nation ...

For instance, 1728 is a key number in the sexagesimal system (base 60), which was central to ancient Babylonian and Sumerian mathematics, while 432 is often associated with cosmic cycles and harmonic ...

Math, citizen science and the scientific method are all tools researchers use to investigate evidence of unidentified ...

Kheer is thousands of years old; you can even find it referenced in "The Legend of the Chessboard," an ancient Indian legend ...

Students still need a strong foundation in core math concepts, Bush said, and this is a subject that has a history of weathering technological disruption. This interview has been edited for length ...

Mehtaab Sawhney, who joined Columbia last year, enjoys the thorny work of proving a seemingly straightforward statement of ...