Ancient Egyptian physicians documented treatments on papyrus, revealing a sophisticated medical system. While most eye ...

In her upcoming Nauenberg History of Science Lecture, World Wounds: The Damming of the Nile River and the Transformation of ...

For more than a century, a cluster of alabaster jars from the burial of Tutankhamun sat in museum cases as some of the most puzzling objects from the boy king’s tomb. Now a new wave of scientific ...

Cocaine didn't make its way across the Atlantic until after the Spanish invaded. So how did cocaine end up being found on ...

A new interpretation of a 3,500-year-old medical text from Egypt suggests that ancient physicians might have bathed patients' eyeballs in human breast milk to treat certain ophthalmic conditions. And ...

Onions have been used for centuries for their medicinal and culinary properties, and have even been grown in space, while a 19.7 lb onion broke the Guinness World Record for the largest onion ever ...

Medical tools in the Middle Ages reflect a period of limited knowledge but growing experimentation in healthcare. Physicians ...

An obscure ancient Egyptian text discovered in the 19th century led to discoveries that rewrote the timeline of early medical ...

The transition from mythology to rational, scientific thought in Ancient Greece set the foundation for Western civilization.

Three Palestinians were killed and another was critically wounded, Thursday, in two separate Israeli airstrikes east of Gaza ...