Even for Australians, the island of Tasmania is obscure. For Americans, it’s frightfully far-fetched. Its capital, Hobart, is ...

Though TB remains the world's top infectious disease killer, there's cause for hope, Fred Hutch Cancer Center experts say.

The Antikythera computer captured the ancient Greek passion for mathematics, and especially geometry, and science.

The neighboring Southeast Asian countries have been fighting over the Preah Vihear temple on and off for decades, and that’s putting the ancient holy site in danger.

An archaeologist claims to have uncovered clues of an ancient city that once thrived off the coast of Louisiana 12,000 years ...

South Africa's University of Johannesburg has received a major Chinese art archive donation from Zhejiang University. The ...

When did the ancient world truly end? Many point to the fall of Rome in 476 AD, others to devastating wars or invasions, but ...

Swasthani holds a central place in Nepali culture. Its female characters uphold ideals of faithful wifehood – seen by some as patriarchal and by others as a source of strength.

One of the seated skeletons in the burial site in Dijon. Several showed signs of violence and all are likely to have been men ...

Emmanuel Macron has opened a new exhibition in Paris that's celebrates the heritage and history of Lebanon's ancient city of ...

India and Iran share centuries-old cultural, linguistic, and economic bonds, shaped by ancient trade, shared language roots and deep civilisation exchanges before modern diplomacy ...

At an archaeological site in southern Lebanon's Tyre, small signs bearing a blue and white emblem provide a symbolic shield, ...