For centuries, residents in central Japan have chronicled a mysterious natural phenomenon in winter. They see its ...

Ancient Athens was sacked four times, starting with the Persian invasion in 480 BC and ending with the Visigoth destruction ...

The gold and silver mines of ancient Greece produced the metals needed to forge empires and lay the foundations of Western ...

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An essential first step would be to keep classes small, limiting distraction. Human connection would be a second key, because ...

Archeologists recently uncovered an historic 1,600-year-old Jewish bath known as a mikveh in Ostia Antica, the archaeological ...

The king's mummy and sarcophagus are missing from the royal tomb, which is the second of its kind unearthed this year ...

The mortar, pestle and cutting board in your kitchen are modern versions of manos and metates—ancient cooking implements ...

Archaeologists in Egypt have discovered the royal tomb of an unknown king who ruled the region during a tumultuous time 3,600 ...

When a vast library of texts amassed by Mesopotamian King Ashurbanipal was burned to the ground about 2700 years ago, the ...

But that heritage is under threat, and not only from giant conglomerates that mass-produce fish sauce in factories. Climate ...

Thousands of years ago, Greco-Roman statues offered viewers a multi-dimensional experience that also called to our olfactory ...