Ancient China began as a group of isolated communities during the Stone Age and eventually grew into a formidable empire.

For hundreds of years, Andean people recorded information by tying knots into long cords. Will we ever be able to read them?

An ancient inscription indicates that in 262 AD there was another battle at Thermopylae between the Greeks and the Goths.

A mysterious sphere found in Buga, Colombia, has stirred UFO buzz, but physicist Julia Mossbridge urges caution, suggesting ...

Researchers studying an ancient form of string-writing used in pre-Columbian South America have unraveled new clues to a ...

That is what makes them so special.” What we know about the Hittites is, by the standards of ancient history, incredibly new. Hittite writing wasn’t unlocked until 1915, when a linguist in ...

Today, more than 30 Mayan languages exist and are spoken by at least six million people worldwide. Although some, like ...

This new chocolate shop offers treats free of refined sugar, seed oils, wheat and dairy – and it tastes delicious ...

It is believed that while deciphering Egyptian hieroglyphs, French philologist and orientalist Jean-Francois Champollion ...

Pax Romana and had a good time, although I can't shake the feeling that it’s closely related to Anno 1800. It seems like a ...

Toibin has undertaken extensive research into Mann’s life and works while at the same time imaginatively recreating his ...

Toibin has undertaken extensive research into Mann’s life and works while at the same time imaginatively recreating his ...