New climate maps show wild wheat and barley grew in much smaller areas than thought, narrowing early farming origins.

Ancient Greek geographer Strabo is one of the greatest writers in the ancient world, devoting his life to studying, writing, ...

Swiss-Russian harpist Alexander Boldachev has gained listeners with his renditions of popular favorites such as Nirvana’s ...

Alexandria on the Tigris was Alexander the Great’s lost trade capital linking India, Mesopotamia and the Mediterranean.

The publication of “Chroma” represents an important shift by museums toward recognizing polychromy and its entanglement with ...

More than half a million Muslims across New York City are observing Ramadan this year. For the first time, they are doing so ...

When we look up at the night sky, most of us see the same patterns of stars that the ancient […] ...

Deep in the deserts of Iraq, the lost city of Charax Spasinou has finally been found. It seems it had been hiding under the ...

Between all the tech campuses and startup offices in San Jose sits a full-blown Egyptian temple housing thousands of ancient artifacts that would make Indiana Jones weep with joy. That’s not a mirage ...

Over 40,000 years ago, our early ancestors were already carving signs into tools and sculptures. According to a new analysis ...

More than two millennia ago, traders from the Indian subcontinent may have walked through the same arid landscapes that today draw travellers from across the globe. In a discovery that bridges South ...