Thousands of 12,500-year-old rock paintings dubbed the "Sistine Chapel of the ancients" have been found in the Amazon jungle.

Researchers have uncovered the origins and genetic diversity of the Fulani, one of Africa's largest pastoral populations. The study reveals a complex genetic ancestry with influences from both North ...

Whether through agricultural practices, deforestation, or urbanization, how modern humans use land has had an unprecedented ...

Crops don't generally thrive in desert-like ground, but 1000 years ago farmers in Israel utilised refuse such as ash and ...

The centuries-old tradition of wassailing is making a comeback in rural England, with rituals and revelry meant to chase away evil spirits and the winter blues.

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This unique degree programme offers training in an unparalleled range of ancient languages and their associated history, culture and textual traditions. Students study Hebrew and either Greek or Latin ...

"Some of the rhetoric in the famous poem, The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, is actually from the hysterical state of mind that people had once they got this disease," Professor Mabberley says.

The discovery of ancient artifacts in surprising places ... basing his observations on official photographs of the statue. “People prayed to divinities and made dedications to them in thanks ...

The architect Domenico Fontana stumbled across ancient buried treasure while ... having been carved out by the Anasazi people in around AD 1200. But it has the look and feel of a distant ...

The Sterkfontein excavation site, which exposes the ancient deposits that once formed underground and contain Australopithecus fossils. The fossil-bearing red sediments clearly contrast with the grey ...