People, and men in particular, have long mixed solid science and serious quackery in the pursuit of longevity. Credit...Claire Merchlinsky/The New York Times; Photographs by Getty Images Supported ...

The artifacts, which included amulets and a sculpture, smelled like earth when they spilled out of his suitcases, according ...

Humanity’s oldest epic is a doomed quest for immortality: About four millennia ago, the Sumerians told of a Mesopotamian king named Gilgamesh who set out to find life everlasting and briefly ...

Recent discoveries challenge ideas of a sharp divide between the haves and have-nots in ancient Mesopotamia ... with the reign of the Babylonian king Hammurabi (1792–1750 BCE).

Astronauts on the International Space Station used fidget spinners to demonstrate Newton’s laws of motion. What happens ...

A Leicester lecturer who attempts to predict the future by analysing sheep livers claims Cynthia Erivo will win an Oscar this ...

The world’s oldest map, a 3,000-year-old Babylonian clay tablet known as the Imago Mundi, may reveal the location of an […] ...

By 1600 b.c., less than one in 20 bones found at sites in the Levant typically come from pigs, and most of those appear to be ...

One of three stone tablets found in northeastern Iraq that may reveal more information about Mesopotamian life ... stelaes were constructed by two kings who made an alliance and went to war ...

India is marking its 76th Republic Day today (). This year’s celebrations are extra special as the Constitution, which came into effect on this day in 1950, marks 75 years. As we observe this day with ...