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Ancient Greek sailors boiled seawater ... in 1675 to the first desalination for ships built in England in 1884 and then the island of Aruba pioneering a desalination plant addressing the island’s lack ...

A study published in the journal Antiquity suggested an ancient South American civilization spiked a beer-like drink with ...

The age of the lines and how they were formed still needs to be verified, but there is a chance this may be one of the oldest ...

Research that combined archaeology, history and ecology provides a nuanced understanding of the past that could help ...

The town’s thousands of ancient graves hold many well-preserved Viking skeletons. The Gothenburg researchers decided to scale up the technique from single teeth to entire skulls. The CT scans provided ...

A new road trip of the Southwest’s Indigenous heartlands offers travellers a greater understanding of the past, present and ...

A newly discovered cache of 27 carved and sharpened bones from elephants and hippos found in Tanzania’s Olduvai Gorge site pushes back the date for ancient ... that early people made simple ...

For centuries, historians and linguists have been searching for the cradle of the Indo-Europeans, an ancient people who shaped history and created the world’s largest language family ...

Scientists have unearthed in Spain fossilized facial bones roughly 1.1 million to 1.4 million years old that may represent a ...

This photo provided by João Zilhão shows forearm bone fragments belonging to an ancient child that appeared ... (João Zilhão via AP) 33,571 people played the daily Crossword recently.

This ancient form of soccer has a rule forbidding players from murdering each other. Every year, thousands of people descend on a small town in the English countryside to watch a two-day game of ...