A collection of artefacts collected 2,500 years ago in modern-day Iraq reveal the forgotten world of Mesopotamia, home to ...

A newly spotlighted artifact from ancient Mesopotamia is offering a rare window into how one of the world’s earliest ...

In antiquity and now, inconsistency and illogicality lie at the heart of the human effort to imagine what happens when we’re ...

the world's wealthiest diamond mine. Nicknamed the "Prince of Mines," Jwaneng rests in an ancient volcanic crater some 170 kilometers southwest of the capital city, Gaborone. It belongs to ...

3. EGYPT: Egypt is widely regarded as one of the oldest countries in the world, with a civilization dating back to around 3100 BC. Ancient Egypt is renowned for its monumental architecture ...

The Italian Space Agency has picked European company Blue Skies Space to build a fleet of satellites around the moon to map the ancient universe. These radio signals are hard to detect on Earth ...

"In ancient cultures, Egyptian, Akkadian, Assyrian, Babylonian, Indian, Persian, Chinese, and Greek, there existed a concept of the sacred mountain of the world upon which the tree of life was ...

Among the recovered items were 15 ancient oil lamps, 17 figurines or fragments, several ceramic vessels, and a marble sculpture believed to depict a child’s head. All are thought to date from ...

In France, Breton is heard in Brittany. Amazing Maps outlined data from 2011 and 2007 in 2023. But more modern data suggests some positive change for the UK’s non-English languages. Breakdown of ...

Authorities in Greece have arrested six people on the island of Crete in connection with an alleged antiquities smuggling ring that was attempting to sell dozens of ancient artifacts, police said ...