Art from ancient Thrace is often flashy and brusque, as befits a warrior tribe. The archaic society was known for the prowess ...

A scholar of early Greek classics explains what the myth of the weapon-carrying god of love, Cupid, a child of the gods of ...

IT is a journalist’s job to p**s people off – so when Russia put me on a wanted list, I knew I had done something right. The ...

Were you told that gold mining in southern Africa started after 1852 ? Or that the export of iron, steel, copper and gold began in the late 19th cent ...

Legendary CBS News correspondent Bob Simon's family and coworkers are remembering him 10 years after his death. The award-winning newsman, who died suddenly in a Feb. 11, 2015 car accident in New York ...

Opera Theatre of Saint Louis has a rich history in world premiers, often commissioning new works from  significant composers ...

Shortly before unleashing his million-strong army on European soil, the Persian Emperor Xerxes was confronted with his chief ...

In 1983, researchers found an antelope femur in Kruger Cave, South Africa. This femur, 7,000 years old, contained arrowheads ...

On the streets I once walked and drove down daily, near the shopping centre where I bought my groceries, dead bodies lay ...

How these precious commodities reached the empire is the focus of a new exhibition, From Sharjah to Rome: Along the Spice Route, currently on display at the Curia Julia – the former seat of the Roman ...

The story is similar for each of the families I visit in Anachere, a community of about 90 members of the ancient Tsimane Indian ... the arid grasslands of Africa, the remote islands of Southeast ...