Pyramids and temples show precise ancient engineeringAncient tools reveal advanced science and metallurgyOld medical and ...

Ancient Greek physician Hippocrates was first to use the word hysteria, from the Greek hysteron (uterus), for an ailment that ...

One such Snake Road is Eastern Parkway in New York City, which leads to the Brooklyn Museum, the home of an ancient Egyptian medical handbook known as the Snakebite Papyrus. The handwritten ...

The Edwin Smith Papyrus, an ancient Egyptian medical text from around 3,000-2,500 BCE, contains what may be the first known reference to breast cancer. Pictured: The Edwin Smith Papyrus.

And centuries after even the conversion of Constantine, we find endowments to liturgies, to mystery cults, to different Egyptian and ... We have papyrus invitations from the Roman world which ...

The first mental illness attributed to women, and one of the most prolific for four millennia, was so-called “female hysteria.” An amalgamation of symptoms that would be considered both mood and ...

A manuscript discovered in the Judean desert contains trial notes on an intricate tax-evasion scheme that involved forgery, ...

But what is the Eye of Horus and what did it mean to the ancient Egyptians? According to Egyptian mythology, Horus was the son of Osiris, the god of the underworld. Horus fought his uncle Seth to ...