A 15th-century manuscript shows trees bearing (clockwise from top left): sweet apples, jujubes, lemons, cherries, dates, and sour apples. By 7,000 years ago, people in New Guinea were cultivating ...

A terracotta figurine in the form of a pig was made in Egypt around 3000 b.c., during the Early Dynastic period. Pork accounts for more than a third of the world’s meat, making pigs among the planet’s ...

Each cell in a plant, animal, or person contains millions, or even billions, of DNA base pairs—molecules connected by hydrogen bonds that are the building blocks of DNA. These base pairs collectively ...

A sculpture known as the Hell Mouth is one of several dozen fantastical creations dating to the sixteenth century that line the paths of a park called the Sacro Bosco, or Sacred Wood, near the central ...

Phys.org reports that a Kerma culture burial radiocarbon dated to between 1775 and 1609 B.C. has been discovered in Sudan’s Bayuda Desert, in what was once ancient Nubia, by a team of researchers ...

Along 2,000 miles of the East African coast, the sophisticated trading centers of the medieval Swahili reveal their origins and influences Excavations at the medieval Swahili town of Songo Mnara in ...

The Anadolu Agency reports that a stadium has been uncovered in western Turkey’s ancient site of Blaundos, a naturally fortified hilltop city founded as a garrison for Macedonian soldiers during ...

According to a statement released by Arizona State University, a second hominin lived in […] ...

Mesopotamia, eighth century b.c. Streams and irrigation canals shown on both reliefs are also mentioned in a text commissioned by Sennacherib that records his grand efforts to transform Nineveh. This ...

Greece, fifth century b.c. To accommodate the sculpture, Phidias raised the height of the cella. He also installed a large rectangular pool filled with olive oil in front of the statue. Since the ...

Nearly 9,000 years ago, Mesolithic foragers living along the Danube gathered Cornelian cherries on the edges of a dense oak forest surrounding their settlement. They used cherry wood as kindling and ...

Sometimes it takes a village to raise a window. Between 2015 and 2017, skilled masons meticulously carved and beveled arches and four-lobed flourishes for a Gothic-style stone window frame in Guédelon ...