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

While still a graduate student at Johns Hopkins University, UC Santa Cruz professor Elaine Sullivan unearthed ancient ...

An ancient script made up of signs and symbols by people from the Indus civilisation ... A leading Indologist told the BBC: "The Indus script is perhaps the most important system of writing ...

Sullivan said that even now, discovering the cylinders at the Tomb 4 site was one of the most exciting ... the translation of the symbols, Sullivan is eager to see how ancient linguists will ...

On the walls of a Tudor manor in Lincolnshire, England, a large number of ancient markings meant to ward off […] ...

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The Wollemi Pine’s bark looks like bubbling chocolate—but its real secret? It’s a 200-million-year-old survivor from the age ...

From ancient Turkey and Alexander the Great to ... Getty Images Physical coins were invented around 750 B.C., and the symbols pressed into their surface were almost exclusively gods or goddesses ...

The nonprofit World Monuments Fund (WMF) has announced its 2025 World Monuments Watch list. Read on for the full list. Teaser: the moon is on the list.

Credit: dronepicr CC BY 2.0 Like several forms of expression, booing originated in Ancient Greece and particularly in the theater, as a means to express dissatisfaction with the play. Booing is not ...