Archaeologists in Oman uncovered a 4,000-year-old musical instrument, a pair of copper cymbals, in the ruins of an ancient ...

Photographer Mitch Epstein's years-long project highlights the majesty and vulnerability of old growth forests across the US ...

Florilegius / SSPL / Getty Images Of all the great debates—Coke ... geneticists and cultural anthropologists are rewriting history through the study of food. The earliest use of vanilla has ...

With the help of declassified spy satellite images from the ... the Sasanian Empire of ancient Persia. Their victory played a key role in Islamic and world history. "The Battle of al-Qadisiyyah ...

Over the weekend, three Italian researchers looking in to the Giza necropolis - Professor Corrado Malanga and Filippo Biondi from the University of Pisa and University of Strathclyde respectively, ...

All ancient texts are read in English translation. Studies Greek history from 800 B.C. (the rise of the city-state) to 323 B.C. (the death of Alexander the Great). Emphasizes the development of ...

The vibrant period of Ancient Greek civilization from 1200 BCE to 323 BCE gave us exceptional achievements that we continue to benefit from today. It was a long stretch of time that spanned from ...

Gnarled, wild and majestic: these two very different trees in California form part of Mitch Epstein’s quest to photograph ancient forests across the US. The photographer’s Old Growth project ...