The fourth-century a.d. Chronicles of Huayang, the oldest surviving Chinese geographical survey, records that Sichuan was ...

According to a Science in Poland report, Marta Osypińska of the University of Wrocław and Piotr Osypiński of the Polish ...

AHMEDABAD, INDIA—Analysis of fatty residues in pottery recovered from a burial in Surkotada, a Harappan site in northwestern India, indicates that people boiled and fried their food, according ...

Crocodiles loomed large in the world of the ancient Egyptians. The Nile teemed with the lurking reptiles, and farmers, who made up most of the population, encountered them on a daily basis.

In his On the Embassy to Gaius, the first-century a.d. historian Philo of Alexandria recounts a diplomatic mission he led from Egypt to Rome seeking intervention on behalf of Alexandria’s Jews.

According to a twelfth-century legend, the island of Selja is the birthplace of Norwegian Christianity and the location where the country’s only female martyr, a tenth-century a.d. Irish ...

A well-preserved mummy identified as a government official from the Qing Dynasty (1644–1912)—China’s last imperial dynasty before the creation of the Republic of China—has been unearthed ...

When some of the first British farmers to live in the Lake District needed to gather at a central location, they may have chosen Castlerigg Stone Circle, a Neolithic monument built some 5,000 ...

As much as 100,000 years ago, modern humans in southern Africa began to settle down. Just how and why this momentous shift in our distant ancestors’ way of life occurred is difficult for ...

Ancestor series, Canterbury Cathedral, England (left) and a panel depicting the prophet Nathan (right) Among Canterbury Cathedral’s architectural wonders are its ornate, centuries-old stained ...