Deep in the national library of France sits a 400-year-old recipe book, its pages jam-packed with handwritten instructions for producing ancient pigments, varnishes, colored metals, and fake gems ...

Buddhist temples in China are home to trees from dozens of endangered species, a new study shows. Some of them are almost 2,000 years old. A Phoebe zhennan tree, about 400 years old, in the Wen-Qi ...

Scientists May Have Discovered How the Ancient Greeks’ ‘First Computer’ Tracked the Cosmos Researchers proposed a new theoretical model for the Antikythera Mechanism, a 2,000-year-old device ...

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