An area called the central Southern Cone in South America, which consists of a large part of Argentina, is known to be one of ...

From ancient Mesopotamian rituals to the teachings of Buddha, Christ, and Muhammad — this is the story of how religion shaped human civilization.

Archaeologists have recently proposed that the Gunung Padang site in Indonesia, long considered the world’s oldest pyramid, ...

As archaeologists slowly excavate this ancient statue from the earth, they are, in a sense, awakening a witness to humanity's earliest attempts to comprehend the cosmos and to communicate with the ...

Ancient Greek thinkers, from Hesiod to Plato, and later Rousseau saw in the noble savage a vision of lost divine harmony and ...

Visiting Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi and Italian Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation Antonio Tajani meet the press in Rome, Italy, on Wednesday.

Egypt is inaugurating the Grand Egyptian Museum, the world's largest museum dedicated to its ancient civilization and an ...

Zhao Yingxin, the general planner of the exhibition, says photographs play an extremely significant role in the progress of civilization, as they record how civilizations move forward and develop.

After innumerable interruptions, delays and setbacks, the world’s largest museum dedicated to a single civilization comes to ...

Across the globe, there are places where nature has slowly but surely taken over, creating eerie atmospheres that are both ...

In an excerpt from his new book Dinner with King Tut, Sam Kean explores a weird and wild '90s experiment to replicate ancient ...