After unearthing a rare collection of highly prized Silk Road artefacts, a family in the Himalayas has opened a museum ...

In ancient Greek philosophy, few ideas offer practical wisdom as elegantly as Epicurus' "Tetrapharmakos." You may be wondering what exactly this "Tetrapharmakos" is—and that’s a valid question. The ...

The St. Pancras New Church is a Greek Revival church in Bloomsbury/St Pancras, London. It was built between 1819 and 1922.

Final analysis of 9,000-year-old ancient DNA published June 18 shows The Ancient One is indeed an ancestor of present day Native Americans—as Indians have said all along. The journal Nature is ...

A new British study reveals the mysterious mounds found on Mars were formed by ancient water. Thousands of mounds and hills in the Red Planet’s barren northern plains are full of clay minerals ...

The final Constitution that came out in 1949 drew voluminously from the principles of governance that prevailed in ancient ...

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Dozens of ancient coins believed to have been stolen by Roman troops during the conquest of Britain have been unearthed in a Dutch field. The 44 gold coins bearing the inscription of AD40 British ...

The rise of pastoralist peoples in the Eurasian steppes and their westward spread some 5,000 years ago may have been fuelled by sheep herding and people exploiting their milk.

Several thousand people are making their way past villas ... The exhibition will breathe new life into our understanding of ancient British recreation, revealing that new finds extend the evidence ...

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