The oldest religious text in the world date back thousands of years, though many religions were initially passed on through spoken word. These religious texts are some of the oldest in human history.

Alcohol has been around for thousands of years. However, the style of fermentation has changed throughout the ages. These are the oldest alcohols in human history.

TEHRAN-- The Regional Museum of Southeastern Iran, with its display of a treasure trove of ancient and anthropological ...

President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi warmly welcomed the distinguished guests of Egypt and the Egyptian people, in a speech, which ...

Zhao Yingxin, the general planner of the exhibition, says photographs play an extremely significant role in the progress of civilization, as they record how civilizations move forward and develop.

DNA shines a light back into the past, showing us things that fossils can't. But how far back can that light extend? Some of the oldest DNA sequences come from mastodon and polar bear fossils about 50 ...

The Elamite Empire, which dates back to 3200–539 BCE, is considered to be one of the oldest civilizations in the world, that ...

For decades, small grooves on ancient human teeth were thought to be evidence of deliberate tool use – people cleaning their teeth with sticks or fibers, or easing gum pain with makeshift “toothpicks” ...

Australia has one of the longest histories of continuous human occupation outside Africa. But who exactly were the first people to settle there? Such a question has obvious political implications and ...

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I read George Eliot’s “Middlemarch,” sometimes hailed as the greatest British novel, in a rain forest in western Indonesia. I was there as a graduate student, spending my days slogging through mud and ...

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