But no one seems to have manipulated the lodestone for sea navigation until early in the present millennium. The first mention of the compass in the West comes from the Englishman Alexander ...

Primarily, the compass was used for geomancy for a long time before it was used for navigation Ancient Chinese alchemists realized that the magnetite ore would point towards a magnetic north. Their ...

Deciphering ancient texts with modern tools, Michael Langlois challenges what we know about the Dead Sea Scrolls A copy of a Greek inscription, made by laying wet paper or plaster over carved ...

Rendering courtesy of the National Park Service A shark no larger than a human hand that stalked the ancient sea floor 340 million years ago has been dubbed the “chipmunk shark” by researchers ...

My kids love Moana, and I have to say, every time I watch it I am low-key impressed with how ancient people managed ... The ...

The cores contained sediments from ancient coastal wetlands that formed and drowned as the present-day North Sea flooded in, leaving behind thin (10–30 centimetres) layers of decayed organic ...

Thousands of years before Odysseus crossed the ‘wine-dark sea’ in Homer’s epic poem ... The first genomic study of ancient people from the eastern Maghreb region — present-day Tunisia ...