The endless iterations of the Orchid Pavilion preface are both an emblem of Chinese culture, and a lens through which China ...

Archaeologists investigating burial sites in southern Poland have unearthed a remarkable collection of iron artifacts, ...

At first whiff, it sounds repulsive: sniff the essence of an ancient corpse. But researchers who indulged their curiosity in the name of science found that well-preserved Egyptian mummies actually ...

A national poll asked punters to review 43 English, and then British, rulers since William the Conqueror, quizzing them if they knew them and, perhaps more importantly, if they view them ...

Scientists have long known that beer played an important role in ancient Mesopotamia, widely known as the cradle of human civilization, but they struggled to find concrete evidence of the beverage — ...