As people celebrate the beginning of the new Chinese lunar year, the Year of the Snake, what do snakes symbolize in mythology?

Tamil Nadu has announced a $1 million prize for decoding the ancient Indus Valley script, sparking global interest among ...

The world’s oldest map unlocks secrets from 3,000 years ago revealing how our ancestors understood the world. The Babylonian ...

Experts believe they may have finally solved the centuries-old mystery of America's lost Roanoke colony through hidden ...

Once vassals to pharaohs, the Kushite kings of Nubia took control of Egypt for almost a century. Embracing Egyptian rituals, they created a culture that influenced both civilizations.

With artefacts on loan from the British Museum, this modest show reminds us of the astonishing heritage of a country now ...

The ancient symbol of Scottish monarchy had been seized ... Prof Foster's research, funded by the The British Academy and the Leverhulme Trust, has involved combing through old newspaper archives ...

Part and parcel of a bygone age, they jutted proudly off an automobile's front and cut through the air like the carved figureheads on the bows of ancient ... became status symbols for the rich ...

Step inside Sir John Soane’s museum in London and you will find a treasure trove of antiquities collected by the British architect who, 200 years ago, was enthralled by the ruins of ancient Rome ...

And don’t worry, this isn’t the result of some white British dudes designing something ... project was to express China’s most revered symbols and the client’s personal iconography ...