While Athens and Sparta dominate the history book, there are lesser-known ancient Greek city-states that contributed to Greek ...

The neglected marble quarries of Paros which centuries ago produced most of the sculptural masterpieces of ancient Greece are ...

The greatest civilisations of humanity – today increasingly merged into the amorphous world of the globalised consumer ...

Discover the truth behind the world's strangest architectural mysteries, from the underground city of Derinkuyu and the ...

Yes, the early Upanishads date back to about the 7th century BC ... The most important Upanishads were created in the 1st millennium BC and apparently in a culture without a writing system.

"These percussive instruments are found from as early as the third millennium BC in Mesopotamia and the Indus Valley, with Levantine examples appearing from the second millennium BC onward." ...

was inhabited during the Early Neolithic (second half of the 6th millennium BC). The findings suggest that this site served as a crucial link between the Guadalope River (and by extension ...

Standing the back, the Rt. Rev. Matthew Cowden, Bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of West Virginia, presents Rector Dean ...

In County Meath in eastern Ireland sits the world heritage site of Brú na Bóinne.The late 4th millennium BC megalithic tombs have been labeled "passage tombs" by archaeologists because they ...

Beneath one, they unearthed a small earlier grave dating to the mid-seventh millennium b.c. containing cremated human bones. Sprinkled throughout this grave were about 30 charred cherry pits ...