Between all the tech campuses and startup offices in San Jose sits a full-blown Egyptian temple housing thousands of ancient artifacts that would make Indiana Jones weep with joy. That’s not a mirage ...

When we look up at the night sky, most of us see the same patterns of stars that the ancient […] ...

At SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory in Menlo Park, scientists from across the globe are using advanced X-rays to find a long-lost map of the galaxy by ancient Greek astronomer Hipparchus.

The Knights of Chaos are an all-male krewe named for a state of disorder. The bitingly satirical Knights of Chaos is historically connected with the Knights of Momus, which began parading in 1872.

A Bay Area lab is using modern technology to recover history that had literally been erased. The x-ray beam that comes out of a tube hits a specific sample, generating data about the elements sitting ...

The Babylonian Map of the World, often referred to as the Imago Mundi, is a fascinating artifact from ancient Mesopotamia, dating back to the 6th century BC. This clay tablet, now housed in the ...

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New research has mapped 16 extensive, interlaced river systems on Mars, dating back approximately 3.7 billion years to the Early Hesperian Period. These large river systems, despite covering only ...