A richly illustrated account of how premodern botanical illustrations document evolving knowledge about plants and the ways ...

The recent excavation of a 5,000-year-old site in Morocco brings North Africa into its rightful place in Neolithic ...

British tourists travelling to a Greek island have been warned that wearing one particular kind of shoe could land them in ...

At the site known as Oued Beht, archaeologists uncovered evidence of a large farming settlement where people used advanced ...

A unique ancient bathhouse dating back to antiquity was recently found hidden in the hills of Sicily. The thermal complex, ...

In ancient Greece, music education was as important as philosophy in cultivating young people's souls, perceiving both ...

Ancient Greek astronomer Aristarchus was the first who presented the heliocentric system, maintaining that the Earth revolves around the Sun.

A large-scale, ancient Moroccan farming community may have played a pivotal role in the development of Mediterranean cultures ...

The war left nearly 80% of Mosul in ruins, severing people's connection to their heritage. "Cultural landmarks that once ...

At a temple site, the remains of an ancient Egyptian astronomical observatory were uncovered. The discovery was made by the ...

A few years ago, Egyptian archaeologists discovered what they thought were the ruins of an ancient Egyptian temple dating ...

In southern Siberia, thousands of miles east from known Scythian communities, archaeologists discovered the burial of a woman ...