Indigenous people across Australia place tremendous cultural and customary value on many species and ecological communities. The very presence of a plant or animal species can trigger an Indigenous ...

A new research paper sheds light on India’s specialised knowledge of Asian elephants over thousands of years in the current context of rising human-elephant conflict (HEC). It highlights that valuable ...

How did people in ancient times deal with the health complications that we use advanced techniques to treat today? Many think that ancient folk simply died of these complications or had to deal with ...

A groundbreaking announcement for the recovery of lost ancient literature was recently made. Using a non-invasive method that harnesses machine learning, an international trio of scholars retrieved 15 ...

Earthquake monitoring, steam engines, surgery, and advanced materials: A journey through ancient inventions that were ahead of their time—and did not survive. In the year 138 AD, in the imperial court ...

When you think of ancient civilizations, what comes to mind? Primitive tools, simple societies, and basic survival techniques? Prepare to have your assumptions completely shattered. Archaeological ...

Throughout history, humanity has used nature's pharmacy for healing. In exploring nature as a source of shelter and food, early humans fortuitously discovered the therapeutic properties of plants, ...

This healing formula doesn’t come from a section of the ‘Hippocratic Collection’ or the ‘Salernitan Guide to Health’, two of the most famous collections of ancient and medieval medical knowledge.