After detailed scans of the find and a yearslong preservation process, experts identified the material as a 1,600-year-old purple fabric woven with gold threads. Its purple dye, now faded to a red ...

Archaeologists at the ancient site of Hadrianopolis in Turkey's Karabük province found a 9.2-centimeter-long conical bronze ...

Climate change, invasions, and economic decline contributed to the collapse of Mediterranean Bronze Age civilizations.

Sharks have ruled the Earth’s oceans for 400 million years and recent research on fossilized shark teeth has led to the ...

This week, explore decoded words from charred ancient scrolls, meet heroic frog daddies, see Grand Canyon-size lunar features ...

An ancient treasure in Spain contains meteoritic iron, proving early civilizations worked with celestial metals centuries ...

For thousands of years, the Aegean Sea has been a crossroads of civilizations, from Bronze Age kingdoms to the cultural and military might of ancient Greece and Rome. But alongside their art, ...

This unique degree programme offers training in an unparalleled range of ancient languages and their associated history ... Between 22% and 27% of a student's time is spent in lectures and seminars, ...

The ancient game of kho kho is enjoying a resurgence in India, with organisers of the first international tournament hoping their efforts will secure the sport's place in the Olympics. It made it into ...

Gallium is a chemical element with the symbol Ga and atomic number 31. It belongs to group 13 of the periodic table and is mainly extracted as a by-product from metallurgy. Bauxite is used in the ...

The expanding gap between employers and employees can be bridged by revisiting ancient Indic wisdom ... Their emotions, personal time, and well-being must be respected. Undue pressure can harm ...

"They can stay fresh for weeks … which is why they figured so much in the art not only of ancient times but also throughout the Renaissance, right up to the modern period." During the ...