But unity, Patriarch Sako emphasizes, "is not a return to what we were, but a focus on what we should be!" And in order to ...

Nov. 19, 2024 — Leveraging a unique statistical analysis and applying it to ancient DNA extracted from human skeletal remains, a team of researchers has revealed new insights into how ancient ...

[Photo provided by The Trustees of British Museum] In the royal palaces of Assyrian kings, art served one ultimate purpose — to awe ... may have given the land of Phoenicia its name — in ancient Greek ...

The Samaritans were a group of people who inhabited the region of Samaria in ancient Israel. One theory claims their origins ...

A new study revives the old argument that ancient seals came before cuneiform, humanity's earliest known example of writing.

Perhaps the most famous Samaritan is one who never existed—the “Good Samaritan” from a fictional story Jesus tells in the fifteenth chapter of the Gospel of Luke. But the Samaritans were and are a ...

This ancient composite offered researchers a unique window into the past, enabling them to reconstruct the vegetative and floral life of that period. It was like holding a piece of the Neo-Assyrian ...

Archaeologists have long known that the Maya Lowlands, in the southernmost region of Mexico, harbors ancient urban settings (SN: 10/25/21). When archaeologist Luke Auld-Thomas, of Tulane ...

In the era in which we see these artificially-expanded lists, the Greeks were becoming more and more familiar with the nations of the Middle East, such as the Assyrians and the Persians. As scholar ...

the exhibition The Countless Aspects of Beauty in Ancient Art opened in Beijing on Tuesday. The Greek show in China seems a perfect match, since on site, Despoina Ignatiadou, deputy director at ...

From gladiators to vomitoriums, delve into Rome’s most persistent myths and find out what really happened. A conservationist restores a Roman bust. Many Roman statues appear starkly white today.