A routine fire patrol, operating some 200 miles northwest of the country's capital, Astana, discovered a nearly foot-long ...

Scientists Find Evidence of High-Quality Mummification of Dwarves in Ancient Egypt, Believe They Were Revered Different ...

Here’s a look at notable spring festivals from the ancient cultures of the MENA region. The Akitu Festival, which dates back to at least 2000 BCE, about 4,000 years ago, was one of the most ...

Artifacts from Gansu province, formerly a significant meeting point of Eastern and Western cultures along the ancient Silk ...

Ancient Near East studies examines the history, languages and cultures of the Near East from the beginning of recorded history to the Roman times (approximately from 3000 BCE to 200 CE). Even though ...

The Department of Classical and Early Mediterranean Studies offers courses in the cultures, languages, literatures, history, and archaeology of ancient Greece and ancient Rome and the global and ...

The ancient Mediterranean was home to a diverse array of cultures in close contact with each other through trade, warfare, and colonization. This course will study a variety of Greco-Roman responses ...

The history and techniques of Pankration, an ancient Greek martial art, have had a significant impact on modern mixed martial ...

The Münster School of Ancient Cultures (MSAC) is an interdisciplinary graduate school founded in December 2020 at Münster University. It unites the numerous subjects and disciplines of ancient studies ...

The release of Cecil B. DeMille’s Samson and Delilah in 1949 heralded the return of the ancient world to the screen. It’s a movie filled with blood, desire, and a doomed romance, as the ...

In his illuminating BBC Radio 4 podcast Something to Declare, podcaster Jack Boswell explores how ancient wisdom from around the world can help us understand and maybe even improve our own lives.