The tiny cuts and grooves that decorate some ancient human artifacts are not just pretty accidents, according to some ...

Food, music and culture have made the Italian southern city of Naples famous around the globe. But there’s another Neapolitan ...

Representing a united heritage and respect for the collective history of our world, this is how to visit all seven modern ...

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?

In a divided world, sacred spaces like Al Aqsa and Babri Masjid, which have raised nationalistic fervour, should have endured ...

The world’s oldest map unlocks secrets from 3,000 years ago revealing how our ancestors understood the world. The Babylonian ...

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 ...

These lampstands are undoubtedly a prophetic sign, connecting the church to the ancient menorah—the sacred lamp of God’s presence in the Tabernacle. It is this symbol of the menorah that was not only ...

The other six of the seven wonders of the ancient world were destroyed, or there is even some debate as to whether some existed: Hanging Gardens of Babylon ... It’s a symbol of ancient Roman ...

But the citrus genus has a surprising history, popping up everywhere from ancient Rome and the Renaissance to naval exploration and Casanova's famed romantic trysts. The history of citrus dates ...

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 ...