Public ceremonies, lavish processions, and temporary wooden arches were commonplace after victory in Ancient Rome. But during ...

The wall that surrounds Xi’an is 8.5 miles long and protects the city’s historic artifacts, including its famed terra-cotta ...

The ancient city of Teos sits on the western coast of Türkiye, directly across the Aegean Sea from Athens. Today, it is ...

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Archaeologists in Italy have uncovered vivid wall paintings in a 2,500-year-old Etruscan necropolis. The paintings, adorning ...

British-Iranian experimental composer and turntablist Shiva Feshareki has been drawing on the Barbican’s hidden history as a ...

While most of the world was in lockdown, a team of 15 researchers carefully scraped thousands of years of soot, dirt, and bird excrement off the walls of this ancient Egyptian temple to reveal what it ...

Clare Dowdy is a London-based freelance design and architecture journalist who has written for titles including Wallpaper*, BBC, Monocle and the Financial Times. She’s the author of ‘Made In London: ...

Linguists and archaeologists have long argued about which group of ancient people spoke the original Indo-European language. A new study in the journal Nature throws a new theory into the fray.

Evidence of this eclipse exists in astronomical simulations and ancient texts that hint at unusual solar behavior. The Old Kingdom’s architectural choices may have reflected a deeper anxiety about the ...

—Ancient bird with T. rex-like skull discovered in China Daniel Ksepka , a paleontologist at the Bruce Museum in Connecticut who was not involved in the study, agreed.