The Cicadas Chinese Calligraphy Club draws upon ancient tradition to write a new chapter at UCLA. Founded in 2021, the ...

Experts are returning to Syria’s war-ravaged heritage sites, hoping to lay the groundwork for restoring them and reviving ...

Museum of London Archaeology researchers recently discovered remains of London's first Roman basilica near the city's ...

Hidden beneath Egypt’s desert sands, scientists uncovered a nearly complete skull of Bastetodon, a 30-million-year-old ...

At first glance, you would be forgiven for thinking that the work of contemporary Indonesian artist Citra Sasmita was made ...

In films and books, terrible things happen to those who smell mummified bodies,” said Cecilia Bembibre, director of research ...

With sharp catlike teeth and a doglike body, ancient carnivores called hyaenodonts were once at the top of the food ...

Continent-size islands deep inside Earth's mantle could be more than a billion years old, a new study finds. Known as large low-seismic-velocity provinces (LLSVPs), these blobs are both hotter and ...

At first whiff, it sounds repulsive: sniff the essence of an ancient corpse ... sniffers to evaluate the odors from nine mummies as old as 5,000 years that had been either in storage or on ...

After detailed scans of the find and a yearslong preservation process, experts identified the material as a 1,600-year-old purple fabric woven with gold threads. Its purple dye, now faded to a red ...