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His unexplored tomb at Nemrut Dağ may show us more about death and worship in ancient Turkey. Several colossal heads that once stood in the mausoleum of Antiochus I of Commagene now lie in front ...

The ancient Greek word daimon—from which the modern "demon" derives—referred to god-like spirits and supernatural forces. While a daimon could be good or evil, the latter was a malevolent ...

Thanks to International Museum Day, two major exhibitions spotlighting ancient Chinese and Syrian civilizations are opening this month in Beijing, Ganzhou and Huzhou. Featuring hundreds of rare ...

"where I can explain I was lucky enough to discover a page [from] the history of our people" A man recently discovered nearly 1,500 silver coins from ancient Rome while hiking. Romanian man Marius ...

“He looked at Rome from that perspective, and now, I'm discovering it in the same way.” Apart from being ancient and obsessed with eating well, what connects the three cultures in our ...

NASA has revived a set of thrusters on the nearly 50-year-old Voyager 1 spacecraft after declaring them inoperable over two decades ago. It's a nice long-distance engineering win for the team at ...

Archaeologists working in Morocco have unearthed three separate ancient cemeteries, including one stone burial plot dating back 4,000 years, according to a study published May 13 in the journal ...

The movie marks a cinematic milestone as the first feature entirely performed in ancient languages. Credit: Nenikikamen via IMDb Yiannis Stravolaimos, the Greek director behind Nenikikamen (“We Have ...

Previously the earliest known reptile footprints, found in Canada, were dated to 318 million years ago. The ancient footprints from Australia were found on a slab of sandstone recovered near Melbourne ...

“It turns out that preservation of these structures is widespread, confirming the ancient origin of this type of circulatory system.” Anatomical diagram of Mosura fentoni, showing preserved ...