A newly uncovered section of the Great Wall of China, dating back nearly 3,000 years, has pushed the wall's origins back by ...

A 2,500-year-old tomb with vibrant red wall paintings has been unearthed at the ancient Tarquinia necropolis in Italy, the ...

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This unique degree programme offers training in an unparalleled range of ancient languages and their associated history, culture and textual traditions. Students study Hebrew and either Greek or Latin ...

You can already get Civilization 7 at a discount, and it’s not even out yet. The next installment in the Sid Meier 4X series has been almost a decade in the making ...

Dutch authorities are desperately investigating a major art heist of a millenia-old golden helmet from an ancient civilization in current-day Romania BRUSSELS -- The prize in this art heist is ...

Mankind’s impulse to gamble has been recorded around the world throughout history. Remnants of dice-like pieces have been found in nearly every ancient civilization, and rules imposed to regulate the ...

A local government in India is offering a $1 million prize to the first person who cracks the code of an ancient script found in the ruins of one of the world’s earliest civilizations.

The Sterkfontein excavation site, which exposes the ancient deposits that once formed underground and contain Australopithecus fossils. The fossil-bearing red sediments clearly contrast with the grey ...

A significant portion of human development and history may be traced back to the ancient civilization of Mesopotamia, in and around present-day Iraq. The study of these new tablets could reveal ...