A history professor has discovered hidden markings on an ancient Roman cup, revealing secrets of the empire’s glassware ...

Five native Thai cat breeds have been crowned national pet symbols, a move celebrated by breeders but met with both optimism ...

A flipped Roman glass cup revealed symbols once thought decorative but now understood as ancient makers’ marks. In the quiet atmosphere of a museum gallery, Hallie Meredith noticed an unexpected ...

During the age of emperors, Roman sculpture was of artistic, religious, and political importance, and often took on epic ...

Through tapestries of fringed strips of fabric, Abdoulaye Konaté explores the contemporary relevance of ancient signs and ...

It’s a divine sign in an ancient legend, according to which the god Huitzilopochtli asked a group called the Mexica — who ...

The inundation of water was more than just provision for crops and fields: the Egyptians called the event the coming of Hapy, ...

In the earliest text written in Marathi, a language of millions in western and central India, a 13th-century religious figure ...

A small stone tablet pulled from the soil of western Georgia has opened a vast new mystery. Inscribed with dozens of unfamiliar symbols, the artifact appears to preserve a script that does not match ...

A steady stream of spiritual pilgrims—mostly women—are drawn to the island’s ancient temples and its museums, home to the curvaceous prehistoric figurines seen as symbols of creation and renewal ...

The craftsmanship on the spears shows some were likely used in battle, while one may have just been a status symbol.