ancient civilizations

“We are such stuff as dreams are made on; and our little life is rounded with a sleep.” - William Shakespeare, "The Tempest" A good night's sleep is imperative to ...

There is an old saying in China: In a conflict, when you hold your temper, you will avoid ...

Mystery surrounds the most famous pair of lovers in ancient history.

Did a Native American set foot on European soil long before we previously thought?

Rare Chinese and Japanese bronze mirrors have the strange property of seeming both opaque and transparent at the ...

It was considerably more difficult to file a customer complaint when you had to chip it into stone ...

Will the history books change? Evidence suggests the Chinese got to America before the Europeans.

Many Mongolians believe exhuming a corpse will destroy its soul. Genghis Khan went to great lengths to prevent ...

An archaeologist working with a brewery is recreating ancient beers from around the world, from places such as ...

A Buddha statue dating back to the 11th or 12th century was examined by CT scan and endoscopy ...

People in ancient times had more advanced levels of scientific understanding than we commonly give them credit for.

The mysterious metal spoken of in ancient Greece, said to glimmer with a reddish light in Atlantis, may ...

Who built the Derinkuyu underground city and why? One among several theories is that it was a shelter ...

Archaeologists in Cyprus have unearthed a 1,500-year-old amulet in the ancient city of Nea Paphos in Cyprus, which ...

Amateur treasure hunters struck it rich when they unearthed a massive hoard of more than 5,000 silver coins ...

A New Year's resolution is a tradition, most common in the West but found around the world, in ...

Mixed in with the reality of impressive tombs in China, is a legend of an enormous 1,000-foot white, ...

A tomb dedicated to the ancient Egyptian god of death, Osiris, has been found in the Valley of ...

The Royston Cave is an artificial cave in Hertfordshire, England. It is not known who created the cave ...

From the U.K. to the Middle East and beyond, megalithic structures entice the imagination, but sometimes leave few clues ...

A mysterious site spans the landscape of Pisco Valley, Peru. On the same plateau where the famous Nazca ...

Two skull-shaped, hollow whistles were found 20 years ago at the temple of the wind god Ehecatl, in ...

Researchers have examined the skeletal remains of 17th century graves in northwestern Poland and have speculated that the ...

One of the earliest references to the use of chemical weapons in Western literature can be found in ...

Along the shores of Israel's Mediterranean coast, in the ancient seaport of Ashkelon, archaeologist Ross Voss made a ...

We've lost the secret to making some of history's most useful inventions, and for all of our ingenuity ...

An object pulled up by a plow in a field and used to prop open an office door ...