A remarkable 3,800-year-old hexagonal pyramid has been uncovered in eastern Kazakhstan, shedding light on a little-explored ...

A discovery underneath the basement of an office block has been described as one of the most important pieces of Roman ...

During the Lantern Festival celebrations on Wednesday, the ancient city of Yulin in Shaanxi province welcomed 35 folk Yangge ...

Another Jewish community was established in the port of Nagasaki. In fairly short order, the Russo-Japanese War and the Great ...

Ancient humans living in Europe may have scooped out the brains of their dead enemies and eaten them, a new study suggests.

The Buddhist Jataka Tales are easily some of the most accessible and widely read texts whose beauty lies in the spectacular ...

A pair of landmark studies, published Wednesday in the journal Nature, has finally identified the originators of the ...

Syrians are once again picnicking and smoking shisha amid the ruins of ancient Palmyra, once desecrated by jihadists but ...

Two new papers, published in the journal Nature, by scientists from Russia and Ukraine, further solidify this claim about the origin of the Indo-European family of languages that include Sanskrit, ...

The Kostenki 11 site, located near the Don River, just 300 kilometers from Moscow, is one of the most significant Upper ...

This week, explore decoded words from charred ancient scrolls, meet heroic frog daddies, see Grand Canyon-size lunar features ...