Explore the historical significance of blue, from ancient symbolism to its cultural impact and modern classification.

We often look at the sky and see a distance, as if we are staring across a void and yet the horizon is merely a mirror of our very biology. Like a seed, in the ...

A normal herbal tincture available at an apothecary is basically an herb soaked in alcohol, but spagyric tinctures involve separating a substance into those three components, purifying them and ...

The 1950s and 60s in the Madras Presidency were not just decades of transition; they were a Rhetorical Blitz of epic ...

Alchemy in Byzantine times was a long intellectual tradition blending Ancient Greek science, Egyptian symbolism, and ...

Owen Weinman's Zep Tepi Solutions brings a 500-year-old alchemical tradition to the online marketplace. PARK CITY, UT — When Owen Weinman spent a month in Egypt in 2017, something shifted. Standing ...

Malta is one of the Mediterranean’s most remote islands. The nearest land is Sicily, about 85 kilometres north. Today, with ferries and planes, getting there is light work, but in the distant past, ...

The oldest known wooden tools have been found in an opencast mine in Greece. They are 430,000 years old and were made by an unidentified species of ancient human – perhaps the ancestors of ...

What if you could create new materials just by shining a light at them? To most, this sounds like science fiction or alchemy, but to physicists investigating the burgeoning field of Floquet ...

This article originally appeared in The Conversation. If you were to visit a bookshop in the ancient world, what would it be like? You don’t just have to imagine it. The ancient Roman writer Aulus ...

Jemima McPhee receives funding from an Australian Government Research Training Program (RTP) Scholarship. Ancient scientists can be easy to dismiss. Greek philosopher Thales of Miletus, often ...