The Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Michael C. Rockefeller collection from Africa, the Ancient Americas and Oceania reopens with a pantheon of historic art stars.

For hundreds of years, Andean people recorded information by tying knots into long cords. Will we ever be able to read them?

The authorities in Monemvasia, founded in the sixth century, say people with limited mobility need access to the town’s peak.

Egyptian archaeologists have discovered tombs dating back to the New Kingdom period (1550–1070 B.C.) and identified the names ...

Save guides, add subjects and pick up where you left off with your BBC account. The Maya weavers worked mainly with cotton, which had to be washed and picked clean of seeds. This was hard work ...