The first ever recorded kiss happened 4,500 years ago, scientists have suggested, after discovering evidence which puts the ...

Researchers trace the origins of the first kiss to early primates 20 million years ago, revealing the deep roots of human ...

An international archaeological team has unearthed one of the most significant Bronze Age discoveries in decades—a sprawling 140-hectare settlement in northeastern Kazakhstan that is fundamentally ...

On the western coast of the United Arab Emirates, a mound of earth known as Tell Abraq holds a millennia-old secret: more ...

A sealed tomb, a skeleton in a pot, and a 4,500-year-old secret hidden in two teeth have just upended what we thought we knew ...

The survival of Assyrian culture in Armenia is not merely a matter of history or heritage. It is an act of love.

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

Independent researchers led by Michael Donnellan claim to have discovered ancient ruins on Spain's Salmedina Island that ...

Way back in Mesopotamia, writing developed. Then Phoenicians made an alphabet. A couple of years later, Gutenberg invented a ...

The earliest form of the signature came from ancient Iraq in the form of cylinder seals. Mesopotamians, the ancient ...

Heretic, debater, wife-snatcher, subject of a posthumous cult: Pico della Mirandola certainly had a wild career. In this smart and rangy book, Wilson-Lee, a Cambridge don, paints a glorious portrait ...

Rolla Selbak, Plestia Alaqad, and Ahmed Shihab-Eldin to discuss ‘The Visitor’ and how cinema is reclaiming Palestinian ...