A Chinese king’s infatuation with a woman was seen as the reason that a golden age collapsed. Evidence suggests climate change and internal strife played bigger roles.
The shift from cultural acceptance to strict prohibition happened relatively recently in this long timeline. Current policies represent ...
The early writing of Yinxu, the rich imagination of Sanxingdui, the echoes of the Silk Road in Dunhuang, and the elegant life of Jiangnan — Today, these traces of civilization across time and space ...
A thriving kingdom in ancient Peru was feeding its agriculture with seabird poop centuries before European colonizers caught on to the material's value.
Renowned Yuan Dynasty painter Zhao Mengfu's painting "Bathing Horses" Photo: VCG The Year of the Horse in 2026 celebrates a ...
Take for instance, an Egyptian granary. “Yes, it’s about grain management, but the human figure in the loin cloth tells us he is not an elite, that labourers were exploited or there was politics of ...
Some of the highlighted artifacts in a series of heavyweight exhibitions in the 2026 line-up of Shanghai Museum, including an ancient Egyptian necklace on loan from The Metropolitan Museum of Art in ...
Long before agriculture, humans were transforming Europe’s wild landscapes. Advanced simulations show that hunting and fire use by Neanderthals and Mesolithic hunter-gatherers reshaped forests and ...
Turkey has long been defined by its ability to connect worlds. In Istanbul, that connection plays out between continents. But deeper inside the country and along its southwestern coast, that ...
Saudi Arabia boasts several UNESCO World Heritage sites that showcase its ancient civilizations and landscapes.
Scholars deciphered inscriptions on 4,000-year-old tablets more than 100 years after they were originally discovered. One ...
The winged serpent in Ancient Greece reveals a profound, long-forgotten link between distant ancient civilizations.
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