As people celebrate the beginning of the new Chinese lunar year, the Year of the Snake, what do snakes symbolize in mythology?

Han Limei and her husband Gai Bin, a couple of folk artists in Jingyu county, Northeast China's Jilin province, have created a series of rural paintings representing the 24 solar terms in the ...

Astrology, the belief that the positions of celestial bodies influence earthly events and human lives, has been a pervasive force across cultures and time periods. Learn more about the history of ...

Easter is fast approaching. Here's a look at why the date of Easter changes every year and what else to know about the ...

The Sumerians of Mesopotamia are considered the world's oldest civilisation, dating back to around 4000 BCE. The Sumerians ...

He maintains that Menes was at one and the same time the Sumerian emperor in Mesopotamia and the first dynastic king of Egypt, a crown-colony of his world-empire.

The site is located in southeastern Turkey, a place that was once part of Upper Mesopotamia ... Was Stonehenge an ancient calendar? A new study says no. The Carnac stones, located in Brittany ...

Population of ancient Greece, Men weighing merchandise, side B of an Attic black-figure amphora. Credit: Marie-Lan Nguyen Wikimedia Commons CC BY 2.5 Estimating the population of ancient Greece is a ...

Clay tablets at Kurd Qaburstan reveal ancient Mesopotamian culture Artefacts hint at urban life in the Middle Bronze Age city Findings challenge perceptions of ...

First, Rey introduces viewers to an excavation site of the Sumerian city of Girsu in modern-day Iraq ... and the other quite surprisingly bearing both Aramaic and ancient Greek. Deftly navigating many ...

As a volcanic eruption darkened the sun roughly 4,900 years ago, a Stone Age culture sacrificed hundreds of decorated stone plaques to try to coax it back. A trove of engraved stones unearthed ...