Those who travel to the Yucatán Peninsula will recognize the beautiful temple complexes and ruined cities of the Ancient Maya. Peaking in the Maya Classic Period of 250-900 CE, this civilization was ...

The clay head has an elongated skull, a flat nose and slanted eyes, a normal depiction of those from the Ubaid culture, ...

UNESCO recognized Japan's ancient process of sake brewing as an "intangible cultural heritage" on Wednesday, which producers ...

Archaeologists in Italy dug into the once-sacred hot spring and reached some of the oldest offerings. Take a look.

Treasure that includes bronze statues, gold jewelry and intact eggs from Roman and Etruscan times unearthed from thermal ...

A multidisciplinary team of researchers studied a large body of texts to find out how people in the ancient Mesopotamian region (within modern day Iraq) experienced emotions in their bodies thousands ...

For over 3,000 years, ancient Egypt was one of the most powerful civilizations on Earth, with an empire stretching across ...

Ancient Greek mythology is one of the most popular and well-known mythologies of any ancient civilization, shaping modern pop ...

While powerful figures tend to take up the most space in our history books, the vast majority of people in the ancient world ...

So why this cornucopia of Greek culture gifts now? It’s easy to explain the feminist revisionist novels: The past two generations of classical scholarship have focused on re­examining the role of ...

Unesco recognised Japan's ancient process of sake brewing as an "intangible cultural heritage" on Dec 4, which producers hope ...