Gold is prized for its beauty and rarity but it is also indestructible, the same piece changing forms through history and ...

The ancient Chinese calligraphic scroll by Rao Jie contains an inscription by Emperor Qianlong and his imperial seal.

Rome, with a population of around 75 million, had an average income equivalent to about 2.25 times the subsistence minimum — ...

Long ago in ancient India reigned a Greek king named Menander I Soter, a great conqueror and benefactor of Buddhism ...

When tariffs were used in Ancient Rome, they often led to higher prices, black markets and other economic problems, Peter ...

The posts, isolated from the rest of the world behind the Chinese Communist Party’s “Great Internet Firewall”, advocate the ...

Researchers found European-style Quina tools in China, dating back 55,000 years, challenging the view that East Asia’s Middle ...

As someone who’s spent years researching the economy of Ancient Rome, it all feels a shade familiar ... especially from ...

Discovery in China of tools called Quina scrapers suggests the people of East Asia were as inventive and flexible with ...

It features coins from more than 100 territories around the globe, ranging in age from ancient times to the modern era. But what makes the lot, set to be auctioned by Numismatica Ars Classica, even ...

The site yielded a diverse array of relics, including historical documents on papyrus fragments, bronze coins bearing Greek rulers’ images, weaponry, and ancient furniture, all remarkably preser ...