Researchers investigating how the first writing arose identified the motifs on preliterate "cylinder seals" used in the trade ...

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

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

"Little Beasts" traces the role art played in the development of European natural history in the 16th and 17th centuries.

The Babylonian oldest map solved revealing ancient beliefs about Mesopotamia and mysterious lands beyond the known world.

As the Earth faces unprecedented climate change, a look into the planet's deep past may provide vital insights into what may ...

It is incredibly rare that you get to investigate or view history from the perspective of a single individual,” one Field ...

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

One of the fun knock-on effects about setting a story in a completely invented fantasy world is that you get to create, if you want, a new map for your new geog ...

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: ...

Thaís Pansani examines the marks humans left on megafauna bones to determine when people arrived in South America and how ...

A British heritage organisation has launched a project to tell the forgotten story of 19th century Black American ...