A CLEVER team of scientists have managed to decipher the world’s oldest map and claim it may show the location of “Noah’s Ark ...

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Researchers investigating how the first writing arose identified the motifs on preliterate "cylinder seals" used in the trade of agricultural products and textiles.

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HIDDEN deep in the African desert lies one of the strangest pieces of land on Earth — not for its beauty, wealth, or ...

A Malaysian aboriginal myth holds that all of the sky once lay flat on the Earth in the form of rice ... habitats almost unparalleled in the plant kingdom. It is cultivated in the cool Himalayan ...

Justin Jacobs, author and expert in modern Chinese history, discusses loot, antiquity, and imperialism in his new book.

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The mystery-cloaked Himalayan kingdom seeks Gross National Happiness, loves its king and wards off evil spirits with phallic ...