Part I of the Polar Nexus Series: Reconstructing the ancient world that existed long before recorded history and left its fingerprints on every early civilization.

If you are trying to travel beyond landscape and cuisine and looking to spend time with the ancient past, Pompeii stands apart as a place that can put you right inside the heart of the ancient ...

"Throughout the course of Chinese civilization, the trajectory from diversity to unity has consistently reflected the central thread of civilizational integration alongside the unification of the ...

Damascus International Book Fair this year offers more than books, it tells the story of Syria’s enduring intellectual legacy. From ...

Still, the fancy persists, implanted like a microchip, ever since Erich von Däniken’s 1968 best-seller, “Chariots of the Gods ...

History is often taught as if progress moves in a straight line—from ancient Greece to Rome, from medieval Europe to the Renaissance, from industrialization to modernity. Africa, in this telling, ...

Think about walking through ruins that have witnessed empires rise and fall, where kings once ruled and civilizations ...

“Our results push back the association of T. pallidum with humans by thousands of years, possibly more than 10,000 years ago ...

The history of the planet and the civilizations that have lived on it are among life’s greatest mysteries.People have roamed ...

Language is one of the most resilient components of culture. Though many languages have disappeared over the course of thousands of years, many are thriving today and carrying on the traditions and ...

Welcome to a journey through time where legends and reality blur. Before recorded history, there were civilizations that thrived, leaving behind whispers of their existence. These lost kingdoms are ...

The room we are in is locked. It is windowless and lit from above by a fluorescent bulb. In the hallway outside—two stories beneath the city of London—attendants in dark suits patrol silently, giving ...