This episode explores the eerie question: how does an entire civilization just disappear? From thriving cities to complex ...

Ancient Nubian civilizations practiced something that might shock modern sensibilities - they tattooed the faces of infants and toddlers as young as seven months old. A new study using advanced ...

History is filled with powerful empires that seemed invincible until they weren't. Between roughly 1250 and 1150 BCE, major ...

The celebration of the Winter Solstice is an ancient practice that is almost untraceable. While we know civilizations like ...

In some of the ancient civilizations each year was designated with a label rather than a number. For example, there was a Year of the Locust, a Year of the Flood, or a Year of Golden Harvest.

As a professor of Chinese studies at the University of Tehran, specializing in China-Iran relations, my fascination with the ...

The wealthiest grave containing the oldest golden artifacts ever found from the 5th millennium BC was discovered in the 1970s ...

No one knows the exact dates when various ancient civilizations figured out the importance of seed corn. The idea that you do ...

Sandel believes that “ethereal, even otherworldly choices,” which include names like Aura, Ophelia and Elowyn, are poised to ...

Reactions from the cultural community in Greece have been positive. Ms. Victoria ZYGOUROU, Director of the Athens Municipal Art Gallery, commended China's progress in integrating digital technology ...

At the book event, Chen Ye, deputy editor-in-chief of Yilin Press, said that the success of the book, which has sold 600,000 ...

Huge carved obelisks and stelas in northern Ethiopia were erected by the kings of the Aksum Empire, who ruled the Horn of Africa and Red Sea region for much of the first millennium A.D. The toppled ...