A middle-aged woman continuously shed tears before the golden mask of the boy pharaoh excavated from the darkness of 3,300 ...

Another common misconception about ancient Egypt thanks to Hollywood is that all Egyptians were mummified and placed in ...

While most people credit Alexander Fleming for the discovery of antibiotics, ancient texts suggest that he likely wasn’t the ...

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Art history has all but forgotten the love that sculptor Auguste Rodin had for the art of Egypt. A new exhbition in New York ...

It might be the setting for Romeo and Juliet, but Verona’s 2000-year-old arena is its greatest theatrical achievement.

Greece's island of Samos was the birthplace of Pythagoras and its fascinating history goes back to the myth of the Argonauts ...

New research suggests the first kiss occurred 16.9-21.5 million years ago between ape ancestors in Africa. Scientists ...

Kissing is more than just "mouth-to-mouth" touching, and the study doesn't really shed much light on why humans kiss the way ...

People have been choosing plant-based diets for thousands of years, for reasons that go far beyond food fads. From ancient ...

Rather than being a recent cultural development, kissing may have been practised by other early humans like Neanderthals and ...