On a set of broken clay bowls from northern Mesopotamia, delicate flower patterns have turned out to be something far more radical than decoration. New analysis of this ancient art suggests that early ...

Tucked away in a seemingly forgotten corner of the Istanbul Archaeology Museum, Daniel Mansfield found what may solve one of ancient math’s biggest questions. First exhumed in 1894 from what is now ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Sun Bin, allegedly descended from The Art of War author Sun Tzu, was a legendary Chinese military strategist who lived more than 2 ...

There is one thing that ancient Greeks, Renaissance artists, a 17th century astronomer, and 21st century architects all have in common—they all used the golden mean, otherwise known as the golden ...