The discovery sheds some light on a "lost" dynasty of pharaohs who ruled during a little-understood time in ancient Egypt's ...

Long ago, in the realms of myth and legend, lay the ancient city of Dwarka, which was no ordinary city, but a place of divine ...

DNA from two mummies at Takarkori links them to 15,000-year-old Taforalt hunter-gatherers, challenging the idea of the Green ...

Miso paste came to Japan from China, introduced by Buddhist monks. It eventually morphed into the comforting soup we know ...

The concept of banking emerged in ancient civilizations ... the most significant innovations of this period was the bill of exchange, a precursor to modern checks. This allowed merchants to ...

Surveys the development of philosophy from its beginnings in classical Greece through the early modern period in Europe, culminating in Kant’s philosophical revolution. This two-block course ...

Thanks to modern-day genome sequencing technology, we now know more about Japan's ancient world than ever before — and all ...

Preserved in amber, the wasp appears to have used a Venus flytrap-like structure on its body to grasp potential hosts.

The Ulpian Library, a great library in the center of Rome, was founded by Emperor Trajan, who ruled around the turn of the second century C.E. Referenced often by ancient authors, it could have ...

As the Ghibli trend takes social media by storm, here's everything you need to know about this viral sensation and the ...

Species such as Homo erectus and Homo heidelbergensis, who lived around this same period ... on the incredible power of modern genetics to illuminate ancient events. "The fact that we can ...

In the first blog post of this article series, the historical evolution of antisemitism was traced from its ancient ...