In the hushed light of a museum gallery, Hallie Meredith discovered something intriguing about ancient Roman glasswork hiding ...

The images hammered into the sides of a goblet found in Palestine give us an idea of what people living more than 4000 years ...

From Sigiriya in Sri Lanka to the astonishing Pompeii in Italy, we take a look at some of the most fabulous cities lost and ...

The dust of centuries has settled over lands that once glittered with unimaginable riches. Massive temples, golden palaces, and treasury vaults filled to bursting have simply disappeared, swallowed by ...

The statue, titled Kneeling Before Iran, shows the emperor grovelling before Persian king Shapur I. Where did this imagery ...

It was a rare sight on Athens’ skyline, and it didn’t last long: The Parthenon was without scaffolding for the first time in ...

Emmanuel Item has tattooed hundreds of people with designs that draw deeply on his Nigerian heritage, connecting people in the diaspora with African culture.

An ancient Indian ivory carving of Buddha's life, a gift to Chinese monk Xuanzang in the 7th century, is a centerpiece at a ...

Venus figurines, with exaggerated sexual characteristics such as big hips and breasts, began appearing about 40,000 years ago. What can they tell us about ancient humans?

In 1874, the Norwegian chess historian Antonius Van der Linde belittled Frederic Madden’s suggestion that Iceland could produce anything approaching the sophistication of the Lewis chessmen.

With the accelerated pace of climate change and global warming wreaking havoc on the ice sheets of the world, particularly Greenland, new evidence emerges from the ice-capped country. Greenland was a ...

NEW YORK (AP) — Researchers have discovered life-size rock carvings of camels, gazelles and other animals in the Saudi Arabian desert. Zelenskyy seeks dismissal of justice and energy ministers in ...