Also their liturgy was originally in the Syriac language which the Chaldean church used. Although an ancient rite, it had no single administrator until Pope John Paul II appointed a Major ...

The city of "Los Abuelos" takes its name from two human-like sculptures of an "ancestral couple" found at the site.

Two recently discovered ancient gold rings set with garnets reveal how Greek trends and customs became part of life in ...

From his roof, Sidi Mohamed Lemine Sidiya scans the medieval town of Oualata, a treasure that is disappearing under the sands of the Mauritanian desert.

The tombs of three prominent statesmen from the New Kingdom era (1539 to 1077 BCE) have been uncovered in Luxor, according to ...

In the early Bronze Age, a piece of bread was buried beneath the threshold of a newly built house in what is today central ...

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

When we talk about ancient Greek colonies, many think of the spots across Europe, such as Syracuse in Italy, but which was ...

An ancient DNA study co-authored by Brown archaeologist Peter van Dommelen illustrates the complexity of human migration and ...

In 1453, the Ottomans seized Constantinople, ending the Byzantine Empire and the life of its last emperor, Constantine ...

Most Chinese hospitals have a ward devoted to ancient cures. Citing traditional medicine’s potential to lower costs and yield innovative treatments, not to mention raise China’s prestige ...

The Rub' al-Khali desert was thought to be an endless sea of sand, but one 1998 discovery has shed light on a 5,000-year-old ...