How could the principle of "radical mundanity" proposed by the Fermi paradox help explain why humans haven't found evidence ...

The Elamite Empire, which dates back to 3200 539 BCE, is considered to be one of the oldest civilizations in the world, that ...

Many of the 50,000 artifacts in the GEM were moved from the Egyptian Museum, a packed, century-old building in downtown Cairo ...

From the Greeks and the Romans to the Ottoman empire, the history of Sardis, Turkey, is one of persistent turnover. But its ...

Plague, leprosy, smallpox and other diseases didn't jump from animals to humans when we thought. Ancient DNA is revealing ...

Long before municipal water treatment plants and chlorination, ancient societies faced the same essential challenge we ...

Often, while watching our favorite shows or movies or even playing an immersive video game, we get completely mesmerized by ...

The C-shaped Jade Dragon is one of the earliest forms found to date in jade artifacts. A representative object of Hongshan culture, it is widely admired for its simple elegance.GAO ERQIANG/CHINA DAILY ...

Visiting Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi and Italian Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation Antonio Tajani meet the press in Rome, Italy, on Wednesday.

The Metropolitan Museum of Art's new exhibition on ancient Egypt features nearly 100 pieces from international institutions ...

The same Europe that painted God and Adam white also painted Africa dark — the myth of the “Dark Continent” was the secular echo of the religious lie that holiness and whiteness were the same. These ...

I met Semir Osmanagich, three years ago, in Pescara (Italy) during a conference on Ancient Civilizations and we had several intriguing conversations that were the seeds of my study on the enigmatic ...