The chance rediscovery of the ancient Chinese Sanxingdui civilization is legendary in and of itself. In 1929, an unsuspecting peasant in Sichuan province stumbled upon a cache of jade relics while ...

Step into the birthplace of Western civilization with this immersive virtual tour of the Acropolis of Athens. Explore its ...

In two of the most forbidding landscapes on Earth—the Empty Quarter of the Arabian Peninsula and the Nazca Desert of ...

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European Christmas traditions in countries like France, Italy, and Poland seem downright strange compared to America. These ...

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That it was the Jewish people’s sacred texts—and ethical monotheism itself—that inspired Western civilization is lost on them ...

For years, conversations about the Muslim Brotherhood’s influence in the West have been dismissed as fringe, conspiratorial, or Islamophobic.

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A new study published in Nature reveals that a distinct group of early humans lived in this region for at least 8,000 years, ...

Archaeologists often seek to understand ancient cultures by studying images left behind on rock faces. While these images ...