Even before it opened this week, the Grand Egyptian Museum looked to be making history. On Wednesday, Egypt will finally open ...

From ancient myths to modern superstitions, all cultures — even modern ones — tell stories about the moon.

Some eight centuries after St. Francis of Assisi composed "Creatures of the Canticle," the manuscript is making its first ...

This immersive experience is unfolded in four chapters: Bai Jian, a counselor from the Gansu Province Cultural Relics Bureau, ...

Name: Babylonian Map of the World ("Imago Mundi" in Latin) What it is: A clay tablet inscribed with the oldest known map of the ancient world Where it is from ... even though it occupied both banks ...

One of the most outstanding messengers in ancient history was Euchid, who gained fame for his journey following the Battle of Salamis in 480 BC. It is believed that he covered an impressive distance ...

The Phaistos disk from circa 1700 B.C. The signs were not engraved using a stylus but rather pressed onto the wet clay using molds or seals in a kind of ancient typesetting. One of the great ...

Many have traced the contemporary conception of a mermaid to the ancient Greek figure of the Siren ... storm which would wreck the ship and kill the crew. For much of history and in many places to ...

Thirteen ancient genomes from the Oakhurst rock shelter in South Africa offer new insights into the region’s human history. A research team from the University of Cape Town (South Africa) and the Max ...

As an architectural designer and researcher studying urban resilience, I have examined many of the techniques and the lessons these ancient civilizations can offer for living in hotter and drier ...

In a discovery that could reshape our understanding of Earth’s ancient history, researchers have found evidence suggesting that our planet may have once had a ring system around 466 million years ago.

EXCLUSIVE: Netflix has confirmed a second season of its controversial Ancient Apocalypse series ... that an advanced civilization was lost to history in the series of cataclysms that brought ...