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A new study published in Science Advances reveals that there’s an ancient sunken ocean floor in between the layer of the Earth’s mantle and its core. Scientists from the University of Alabama discovered …
The fossils of a plesiosaur (a marine reptile with a long neck and four long flippers, that existed in the Mesozoic era) found in a 100-million-year-old riverbed in Morocco’s Sahara Desert contribute …
Celebrating trans love, the return of a design icon, maps from the mind, ancient inventions gain new life and more
When Syriac scholar Dr Gregory Kessel first handled the ancient medicinal manuscript “On the Mixtures and Powers of Simple Drugs,” he immediately knew he had encountered it before. Kessel recalled a stray …
An exhibition tracing the evolution of stadium design from antiquity to the present
Modern leather goods inspired by ancient techniques
Stunning simplicity in a container highlighting the beauty of vertically-cut wood