Forty years after the first effort to extract mummy DNA, researchers have finally generated a full genome sequence from an ...

A seventy-million-dollar renovation beautifully presents the museum’s non-Western art—even if doubts remain about whether all ...

Humans have contemplated animal migrations for millennia. Representations of and theories about these journeys are observable in Stone Age rock art and the writings of Ancient Greek philosophers.

Ancient Greek mythology and art depict lions. Did lions once live in Greece? Larry Rideout | Boston Yes! Lions have a huge historic range. Evidence has been found that as far back as the Neolithic ...

The Smithsonian Institution is the world's largest museum, education and research complex. It consists of 21 museums and the National Zoo.

The vases from antiquity are displayed behind glass barriers. While an ancient Greek vase might show young men walking through the town after a night of revelry and drinking, one of Lugo’s “Greek-like ...

The recent earthquake swarm that has plagued Greece’s famous Santorini island, sparking public debates about volcanoes, has brought the topic of other volcanoes in Greece back into the spotlight, many ...

Archaeologists are restoring ancient treasures in Nimrud, an Assyrian city in Iraq, nearly a decade after its destruction by militants. Credit: M.chohan / Public Domain Nearly a decade after militants ...

Executive Summary Introduction Data and Methods World Heritage Site Analysis 1. The Ancient Site of Dura-Europos 2. The Ancient Site of Ebla 3. Hama’s Historic Waterwheels 4. The Ancient Site of Mari ...

Those who study Greek mythology may have noticed similarities between towns like Homer, Castor, Alexandria, Athens, Eros, Sparta, Urania, and Arcadia, Louisiana, and the people, places, and things ...

The packages were sent to a woman whose work had led to the heralded recovery of the Kyrenia, and to new insights into classical Greek seafaring. But their ancient contents were a problem. By ...