From a garden at the Holy Sepulchre to new dates for the Dead Sea Scrolls, new research is offering detailed glimpses into ...

How did China’s first emperor move armies across vast distances? The discovery of a major section of the Qin Straight Road sheds new light.

The calendar begins with the kickoff of a yearlong celebration of the United States' 250th anniversary, followed by the ...

Known as a kore, this 2,500 year-old-statue is a fusion of ancient aesthetics and a symbol of cultural exchange between the ...

Welcome to this edition of The Hindu on Books Newsletter. The redoubtable Jane Austen (1775-1817) turned 250 on December 16, with her books, Pride and Prejudice , Sense and Sensibility , Emma , ...

In the lush landscape of northern Zambia, a stunning archaeological discovery at Kalambo Falls has reshaped our understanding of ancient human ingenuity.

LUXOR, Egypt (AP) — Egypt on Sunday revealed the revamp of two colossal statues of a prominent pharaoh in the southern city ...

Walk into any museum and you'll see them. Those ancient statues with generous hips, full breasts, and rounded bellies.For centuries, these figures puzzled historians who couldn't understand why early ...

Archaeologists have unearthed an ancient sun god temple in Egypt, which showed signs of being modified into a residential area after a century of use. Excavations at Abu Ghurab, about 16km (10 miles) ...

The newly excavated 4,500-year-old valley temple from ancient Egypt holds a "public calendar" and a roof for astronomical observation. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an ...

An Italian archaeological mission has discovered the remains of a sun temple belonging to an ancient Egyptian king near Cairo, the Egyptian antiquities ministry said. The temple of King Nyuserre is ...

Between 128,000 and 186,000 years ago, when ice covered the Sierra Nevada, a lake 100 miles long and 600 feet deep sat in eastern California in what is now the Mojave Desert. As the climate warmed and ...