Amongst the most enduring mythical creatures, which were present in so many ancient cultures, are the dragons. Appearing frequently in folklore and tales from China in the east to Europe in the west, ...

The three ages of the ancient world — Stone, Bronze, and Iron — encompass the formative years of human history in most regions. Learn how we went from dwelling in caves to building civilizations over ...

Many of the world’s most fascinating archaeological sites are overshadowed by their more famous neighbors, leaving countless ...

While Europeans eventually discovered the impressive moai statues for which the Rapa Nui are best known, they also stumbled ...

Zhao Zeming, the concert's music director and a young composer, states that the guqin and the Grand Canal mirror two ...

From politics to the Oscars, the #MeToo movement is spotlighting the nature of women’s relationship to power. Why are traditional positions of power still closed to so many? How do women work within ...

Abortion today, at least in the United States, is a political, legal and moral powder keg. But for long stretches of history, terminating an unwanted pregnancy, especially in the early stages, was a ...

Studies of human population history have the goal of finding out what happened in our past, in terms of population origins, migrations, relationships, admixture and changes in population size — that ...

Learn more about oil residue left over on ancient "dirty dishes" and what they can tell us about ancient olive oil production ...

Age-old amphitheaters in Antalya province, among Türkiye’s most significant cultural treasures, were used for a range of ...

Vanilla beans begin as the seedpods of a tropical orchid (left); Chocolate is made from the seeds hidden inside the fruit of the cacao tree (right). Florilegius / SSPL / Getty Images Of all the great ...