Yet, a lit-up Gur-e Amir – a 15th-century mausoleum of Tamerlane (also known as Timur) – is just one of the ancient religious sites making this area of Central Asia, Samarkand, an essential ...

Paper’s invention was a revolutionary breakthrough. Following the invention of paper in 105 CE, forms of communication, learning, and record-keeping were drastically simplified. We track its rich ...

Soar over Samarkand, Uzbekistan’s ancient Silk Road city, where majestic blue-tiled madrasas, grand mosques, and ...

Etched onto rocks on a remote peninsula in Western Australia are millions of images drawn tens of thousands of years ago by ...

South African Stephen Townley Bassett creates detailed replicas of rock art using traditional materials and methods, ...

A ritual and funerary landscape is emerging in northwestern Africa, revealing connections with the Mediterranean, Atlantic ...

The discovery adds to a growing body of ancient art known in Southeast Asia that changes some long-standing ideas about when and where humans started showing our defining cognitive traits.

Years passed and when I was her age in the 1970s independent Israel she spoke about the most beautiful town she witnessed during that time – Samarkand ... The ancient Registan Square ensemble ...

An ancient granite pebble included indentations resembling a face, its nose a red dot. A study says it may have had symbolic ...

In a recent study, the researchers theorized that Linear Naturalistic Figures found in western Australia reveal the ancient ...

A quick trip to the San Antonio Museum of Art should suffice. Here, I recently viewed the permanent collection of Ancient Greek pottery through a new, wine-focused lens. Turn left at the main lobby.

The monastery of Casamari in Italy was built in the 11th century on the foundations of a temple dedicated to Ceres, the Greek ...