As people celebrate the beginning of the new Chinese lunar year, the Year of the Snake, what do snakes symbolize in mythology?

One leading theory on the origins of life on Earth proposes that simple chemical molecules gradually became more complex, ...

The undeciphered language likely comes from an ancient civilization, and understanding it could provide valuable insights ...

The Sumerians of Mesopotamia are considered the world's oldest civilisation, dating back to around 4000 BCE. The Sumerians ...

He maintains that Menes was at one and the same time the Sumerian emperor in Mesopotamia and the first dynastic king of Egypt, a crown-colony of his world-empire.

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Two ancient artefacts found at a North Wales airbase have been classed as treasure. The relics - a bridle bit and a terret ring from a horse harness both from the Iron Age - were discovered during ...

Jon Stewart took to the task on The Daily Show by snarking about the technocrat audience at the inauguration. “Shouldn’t this gathering be happening in a volcano’s lair near Zurich?” ...

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Women were excluded from public life in ancient Greece, including all formal ... to cope with the unstinting daily work at home, and on the estates.” At the exhibition’s opening last month ...

Dr Hay describes the private bathhouse complex as a once-in-a-century discovery, which also reveals a darker side of Roman life. Just behind ... hold wine and oil in ancient Roman times.