They duly cleared the ground over what had been the ancient church and made a stunning discovery: Underneath the rubble was a huge mosaic of a detailed map. Although damaged in places, its myriad ...

For ancient seafarers, the ocean was a place of mists and uncertain landfalls. They described mysterious islands with godlike people, exotic creatures, and lost civilizations. Some islands ...

HONG KONG, May 30 (Xinhua) -- The establishment of the International Organization for Mediation (IOMed) aligns with the peace concept cherished by both China and Benin, and will provide new pathways ...

Black Star News has been producing stellar investigative journalism since 1997, including focusing on police brutality and other abuses targeting marginalized communities and Us Politics We have ...

NEW YORK (AP) — Scientists have identified a new pod of ancient hunter-gatherers who lived near the land bridge between North America and South America about 6,000 years ago. Researchers are ...

The first, sometimes mistakenly called Himyarite, was of Semitic origin, used the Musnad alphabet (South Arabian), and was spoken in the Kingdom of Saba, in present-day Yemen, since a millennium ...

Buying and selling human skulls is totally legal in Germany. Why is this so? And where are the skulls from? This reportage reveals the questionable nature of this trade in skulls — especially ...

Egyptian Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities Archaeologists in the Egyptian city of Luxor have unearthed the tombs of three prominent officials from the New Kingdom period, which lasted between ...

A recent study analyzes the attempt by the Roman emperor Claudius, who ruled from 41 to 54 CE, to promote haruspicy, the ancient art of divination that involved examining the entrails of animals to ...