Researchers made the new discoveries during field work at the Bronze Age site of Kurd Qaburstan. The research provides insights into regional heritage and fills gaps in knowledge about how ancient ...

As people celebrate the beginning of the new Chinese lunar year, the Year of the Snake, what do snakes symbolize in mythology?

The ancient faith dating back to 1700 B.C. is in danger of becoming extinct if its dwindling followers don't find a way to ...

When it comes to chronicling the past, it seems there are basically two ways discoveries are made: either they’re the result ...

New genetic evidence traces the roots of English, Sanskrit, and hundreds of other languages to a group of hunter-gatherers in ...

A pilot project to scan the surface material of an Iraqi desert revealed 850 different artifacts from the Old and Middle ...

For decades, the leading theory for the ubiquity of Indo-European languages was that early farmers, living in a region known ...

Scientists say that the two lost, but extremely important books by Apollonius, the Greek mathematician known to the ancient ...

The issue of who was considered Greek during the era of ancient Greece has been a matter of broad scholarly debate for ...

He conquered land across three continents, ruled over states from Egypt to modern-day India, and never lost a battle – before ...

which had a population of just 253 people in the 2011 census. Little Tew has only 150 homes, a church, and is so quiet that it lacks even a pub or any shops. Another resident wrote: “Rather than ...