This guide breaks down all the must-see monuments you won't want to miss on your next trip to Italy.

Walk into any museum and you'll see them. Those ancient statues with generous hips, full breasts, and rounded bellies. For centuries, these figures puzzled historians who couldn't understand why early ...

Before modern science had a true understanding of what a solar eclipse is and how they work, ancient cultures had to form their own beliefs over what happened during this brief, but awesome, event.

The Phoenicians, an ancient civilization that originated in the Middle East, spread their culture far and wide — but not their DNA. Phoenician city-states across the Mediterranean shared languages, ...

Native American tribes and ancient Mound Builders in Ohio left no written record, but we can learn about them from what they left behind. Ancient Mound Builders known as Adena, Hopewell and Fort ...

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Examination of an ancient alabaster vase in the Yale Peabody Museum’s Babylonian Collection has revealed traces of opiates, providing the clearest evidence to date of broad opium use in ancient ...

JATUN RUMI, Ecuador (AP) — Indigenous themes have been explored before in short and feature-length films produced in Peru and Ecuador but most of those films have had Spanish-speaking characters.