On Sept. 27, 1822, French philologist Jean-François Champollion announced that he had deciphered ancient Egyptian hieroglyphics, using the Rosetta stone. This ushered in a new craze for Egyptology and ...

On the shores of Lake Hula, archaeologists have uncovered a 14,300-year-old settlement tied to the Natufian culture. The site offers a glimpse into the moment humans first began settling, farming, and ...

Joint museum exhibits and student exchanges target one million visitors, handing cultural writers China-Egypt dialogue keywords and event calendar.

In “Goliath’s Curse,” Luke Kemp crunches the numbers to see exactly how far we are from the fate of once-great empires. A detail from Samuel Colman’s “The Edge of Doom” (1836-38).Credit...Samuel ...

Do enough of us have the moral clarity to not just recognize the threats we face today but respond appropriately?

From the cuneiform writing of Euphrates and Tigris to the pyramids along the Nile, from the urban grids of the Indus to the rice cultivation remains of the Yangtze River, every leap forward in human ...

Archaeologists have made an astonishing discovery, unearthing a structure that predates all known civilizations. This remarkable find is not only reshaping our understanding of human history but also ...

BEIJING, Sept. 28 (Xinhua) -- A think tank report on a new vision of civilizations with development at its core has sparked discussions among scholars from home and abroad. The report, titled "Theory ...