Twice a year in southern Egypt, an extraordinary solar event proves that ancient engineering was far more advanced than many people realize.

Black History Month should not be about trivia or symbolic firsts. It should be about unlearning—about dismantling the white perspective that framed Africa as marginal and Black people as derivative.

Hypatia of Alexandria, a renowned mathematician and philosopher, taught in the ancient world when few women had such opportunities. Her life as a public intellectual and advisor ended tragically in ...

The Bengal Reader is an expansive anthology of Bengali writing in translation to be published in one volume. Ranging from the ...

Encephalitis lethargica is an illness that attacks the brain, leaving the victims like living statues—speechless and motionless. This disease turned into a full-blown epidemic around the world in the ...

One of the clearest signals of Egypt’s new creative renaissance is the shift in how young  Egyptians work and imagine their ...

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Alexander the Great and the first President of modern Greece Ioannes Kapodistrias employed the Hellenic civilization for the good of humanity ...

However, careful reexaminations indicate the “little awl” is far more significant than originally believed—so much so that it ...

What a wonderful question! The simple answer is that they relied on centuries of previous observations. Remember, even computers have to be programmed with the right data to produce future times of ...

Researchers have identified what may be the earliest known metal drill from ancient Egypt-and it was hidden in plain sight.

A new study reveals that Egyptians were using a mechanically sophisticated drilling tool far earlier than previously suggested. Researchers at Newcastle University, and the Academy of Fine Arts, ...