Over the past 10 years, researchers led by Fu Qiaomei from the Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology (IVPP) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) have used ancient DNA (aDNA) ...

Often, when we think about antiquity and ancient military technologies, we fall into the usual view of ancient warfare. You might picture phalanxes of Greek spearmen crashing into one another. The ...

What makes this artifact so advanced is its sophisticated gear ratios and astronomical calculations. The device could predict solar and lunar eclipses decades in advance, track the four-year cycle of ...