The artifacts were excavated from a city dating back to the third millennium B.C.E. by researchers from Iraq and the British Museum

New research is shedding light on the bouleuterion building that once stood in the ancient city of Teos, located in present-day Turkey

In the arid regions of Arabia and Africa, the Boswellia tree has long been revered for its aromatic resin, a resin called frankincense. Once a symbol ...

Sealskin — Jeff Dworsky’s debut monograph ties his own life on Deer Isle and elegiac family ...

More than 2,000 years ago, a young woman was buried in the Turpan Basin of northwest China. She was laid to rest alongside leather boots, gold earrings, and ...

The marbles in the Torlonia Collection have been inaccessible to the public for decades. Now, some of them will be exhibited in Chicago, Fort Worth and ...

Before the soft-footed, domesticated Felis catus found its way into Chinese homes, another feline species occupied human settlements for thousands of years. ...

For decades, the story of agriculture in the Mediterranean has been told as a wave of migration—Neolithic farmers from the Near East expanding across ...

Found at the Karnak Temple complex in Luxor, the 2,600-year-old trove includes a necklace depicting a golden trio of Egyptian deities

The figurines were discovered in a largely unexcavated site in El Salvador. Some 2,400 years ago, they were controlled by strings that passed through their ...