Professor Kenichi Yano of Ritsumeikan University emphasized the discovery's unique significance: ...

Ancient societies in southern China pegged coffins into high cliffsides in burial ritual linked to good fortune ...

A remarkably preserved horseshoe crab fossil from North America offers rare insight into some of the earliest known cases of ...

The city of Parthenope was one of the earliest ancient Greek settlements on the coast of what is now Naples, Italy.

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The discovery of the settlements over the years has led to a new understanding of the Asia Minor and Anatolia regions.

Ancient Roman ideas of privacy differed radically from our own, and their communal toilets reveal a mindset almost impossible ...

A NASA planetary scientist has proposed what may be the first scientifically sound explanation for the mysterious Star of Bethlehem that guided the three wise men to the infant Jesus over two ...

The chance rediscovery of the ancient Chinese Sanxingdui civilization is legendary in and of itself. In 1929, an unsuspecting peasant in Sichuan province stumbled upon a cache of jade relics while ...

By Karen Taylor The famed silk roads, which connected ancient China to the rest of the world, were not so named until many ...

Here are some places you can find real Christmas trees in Florida, the average cost, and a little bit about the history ...

Diagoras was the first known atheist, whose bold critique of the gods was crucial in shaping early Greek secular thought.