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

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 ...

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

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

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

This redefines “high” society in ancient Egypt. Yale University researchers have found trace amounts of opium jars in an ancient Egyptian vessel, proving that opium use was widespread in the land of ...

Traces of opium found inside an ancient alabaster vase suggest drug use was common in ancient Egypt, not rare or accidental. The discovery raises the possibility that King Tut’s famous jars once held ...

A 17th-century map of Mesopotamia, which housed the Assyrian empire -- and the beginnings of modern capitalism. Breuning Von Buchenbach Hans Jacob - 1612/Picryl. We think of ancient civilisations as ...

The inundation of water was more than just provision for crops and fields: the Egyptians called the event the coming of Hapy, god of abundance and fertility. THE PERFECT AMOUNTEgyptians needed the ...

A 3,500-year-old clay tablet discovered over a century ago in Iraq has been revealed as one of humanity's earliest examples of urban planning. The ancient map of Nippur, etched into a hand-sized ...

A new study that examines how kissing evolved suggests that ape ancestors and early humans, like Neanderthals, probably locked lips with their friends and sexual partners. The behavior may date back ...