Agrarian societies, historically reliant on favorable conditions in nature for their survival, created these rituals to ward off evil and misfortune, she said. Carnival revelry has for centuries ...

In the 6th century BC, while Rome was still a minor city-state in the Italian peninsula, the ancient city of Cyrene ... to speculate that the “heart” symbol — widely used as a metaphor ...

The Ancient City houses the strange and massive portal-like structure at the center. This portal consists of strange blocks that are harder than Obsidian and take longer time to break it. So, ...

“It kind of towers above the city. And so it’s a real symbol of Roman power and authority.” But the building wasn’t in use for long. After 20 years, the first basilica and forum were ...

It's a cutting-edge twist on fog collection, an ancient technique that can address California's water scarcity driven by climate-induced drought. Fog collectors are simple contraptions made of plastic ...

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.

Ancient-genomics researchers have pinpointed the homelands of a nomadic tribe that transformed the culture and genetics of Europe and Asia, revealing a potential source for the Indo–European ...

Bread has been a common staple for many cultures around the world since ancient times. But have you ever wondered ... John Kuroski is the editorial director of All That's Interesting. He graduated ...