This “Histomap,” created by John B ... the “outline,” in which large subjects (the history of the world! every school of philosophy! all of modern physics!) were distilled into a form ...

In 1882, the British Museum acquired a clay tablet that had been discovered in southern Iraq, not far from the ancient city ...

Researchers investigating how the first writing arose identified the motifs on preliterate "cylinder seals" used in the trade of agricultural products and textiles.

If Earth's history were a calendar year, humans would not appear until the last few minutes before midnight on Dec. 31.

Today's object: Mummy of Hornedjitef British Museum Mummy and coffins of a priest who lived over 1,000 years after Tutankhamun and Ramesses the Great. Weekly theme: Making us human Looking at the ...

Imagine that a massive ice sheet covered Canada and oozed down over a large part of the northern United States, like icing ...

For an invention so world-changing as the wheel, scholars know surprisingly little about its origin story—but there is no ...

Pedestrians in Montreal, Grand Rapids and other locations can time-travel thanks to installations that map historical scenes ...

The history of lupus can be divided into three periods: classical, neoclassical, and modern. This article concentrates on developments in the present century which have greatly expanded our knowledge ...

Justin Jacobs, author and expert in modern Chinese history, discusses loot, antiquity, and imperialism in his new book.

There are parts of the excavation site that date back to the Sasanian Empire of the 3 rd through 7 th centuries, but a ...

Miki Hayakawa, One Afternoon, ca. 1935, oil on canvas, 40 x 40 in., New Mexico Museum of Art, Santa Fe, Gift of Preston McCrossen in memory of his wife, the artist, 1954, 520.23P Note to editors: ...