Archaeologists in Italy have discovered a 2,500-year-old Etruscan tomb that is richly decorated with wall paintings.

On a late-summer day in 1856, a letter carrier stepped from a mail coach in front of a three-story townhouse in Mayfair, in ...

As people celebrate the beginning of the new Chinese lunar year, the Year of the Snake, what do snakes symbolize in mythology?

Discuss. (2014) The ancient civilization in the Indian sub-continent differed from those of Egypt, Mesopotamia and Greece in that its culture and traditions have been preserved without a breakdown to ...

A team of scientists has made the first experimental measurements of laser-induced motions of miniature lightsails in the lab. The idea of traveling through interstellar space using spacecraft ...

Ventilation in hospitals could cause viruses to spread further, study finds Date: January 31, 2025 Source: University College London Summary: Increased use of ventilation and air cleaners ...

There's no shortage of games like Civilization. Sid Meier did, after all, spark a strategy revolution with the first game in the long-running series, and there have been plenty of competitors in ...

Authorities in the Indian state of Tamil Nadu are offering a reward of as much as $1 million (€960,000) for whoever can decipher a 5,300-year-old Indus language. For more than a century, linguists and ...

Dan and Becky Okrent spent seven years on the Met Project, a labor of love that took them from ancient Sumer to Synchronism. The Master Origami Artist Whose Collection Turned to Ash in Altadena As ...

Plebeian Revolt, also the Conflict of the Orders, was a political struggle between the plebeians, commoners, and patricians, aristocrats, in ancient Rome ...

He maintains that Menes was at one and the same time the Sumerian emperor in Mesopotamia and the first dynastic king of Egypt, a crown-colony of his world-empire.