Kamal’s dictionary was completed 100 years ago, earning him the title Pasha, awarded by King Fouad. However, he died shortly ...

Taking time off in the summer was important in ancient Greek and Roman times. But some found it hard to detach from work and ...

The Rosetta Stone is widely considered one of archaeology's most significant finds. A decree from Egyptian Pharaoh Ptolemy V ...

Samples of the Black Death, which wiped out as many as 50 million people in medieval Europe, have been found in an ancient Egyptian mummy. The pandemic, also known as bubonic plague, spread ...

ABSTRACT: Tibetan medicine is an important part of traditional Chinese medicine, boasting a long history and a unique theoretical system. With the development of globalization, Tibetan medicine faces ...

Thanks to recent analysis, however, researchers believe they have confirmed the first known plague case outside Eurasia: a 3,290-year-old, ancient Egyptian mummy. Y. pestis, also known as the ...

Karl Mischke … in discussing the origin of the Arabic numerals, points out that the Roman numerals from 1 to 10 originated from the primitive custom of reckoning on the fingers of the two hands ...

Frozen Antarctica Walloped by Climate Extremes. Credit: Horacio Lyon / Flickr / CC BY-NC 2.0 An ancient hidden “world” has been uncovered deep beneath the thick ice of Antarctica. Named Lake Enigma, ...

Don’t look now, but the company formally known as Facebook has officially pioneered the science of real time language translation, in a modern-day reverse tower of Babel scenario that’s likely ...

As Aripov discovered, learning to read ancient Egyptian is a challenging process that demands a great deal of memorization before students can attempt to translate words and sentences. “I took two ...

Stonehenge may have been built to unify people in ancient Britain, according to new research. It comes after evidence shows one of the stones came to the monument in Wiltshire from as far away as ...