The sciences play a major role today in explaining the unknown and unravelling the hidden and often surprising history of our ancient origins. Archaeology digs into the mysteries which have been buried over the millennia, offering amazing new pieces to the ever changing puzzle of humanity’s past and altering how we interpret it. The fields of paleontology, anthropology, molecular biology, chemistry, and more, point us in new directions of discovery, in an attempt to answer the all-important questions: “Where did we come from” and “Where are we going?”
Here we feature Archaeology and Science:
One only had to witness cities devoured by flames, see fleets of ships sinking, their sails ablaze, or behold screaming victims doused in boiling pitch to know the deadly efficacy of ancient thermal weapons.
Warfare was brutal, but effec...
