Greek statues are admired worldwide for their extraordinary beauty, but do they truly reflect the actual appearance of the ...

The collection of markings is now thought to have been left by a herd of ancient sea turtles that had been frightened off by ...

In 2025, our science reporters followed the first confirmed glimpse of a colossal squid and a rare look at dinosaur blood ...

SCRIBE STATUE. FOUND: Lagash, Iraq. CULTURE: Sumerian. DATE: ca. 2400 B.C. LANGUAGE: Sumerian. In early 2016, hundreds of media outlets around the world reported that a set of recently deciphered ...

Wisconsin Historical Society experts identified 16 dugout canoes in Lake Mendota, including the oldest recorded canoe from ...

We think of ancient civilisations as operating very differently from the way our economy works today. Yet the Bronze Age ...

Very recently, I was invited to curate a collective exhibition with a fascinating past (and, hopefully, an even more exciting future). Ceramic Forms presents a dialogue between two islands, Malta and ...

A 1,300-year-old Mayan altar at Copan reveals new interpretations suggesting that its carved hands conceal four dates from the calendar.

Amphitheater’ at Karahantepe Presents New Angle On Neolithic History. Archaeologists working at the Karahantepe site in southeastern Turkey have uncovered a monumental structur ...

Before the invention of alphabets, literacy was the purview of Egyptian and Mesopotamian scribes trained in complex writing systems that could take years to master. Proto-Sinaitic script, which uses a ...

The publishing world's notable releases this year included a new “Hunger Games” novel and a book by Thomas Pynchon. Suzanne ...

Here are the CBC Books picks for the top Canadian fiction of the year!