The face is gone. Not chipped or worn away by time, but struck — possibly on purpose — until nothing remained of the features ...

Chinese legal texts have described nasal amputation as a criminal punishment since the Bronze Age. Oracle bone inscriptions ...

An international team of researchers has published a study that questions one of the most widespread theories about the ...

Flag with the Cantabrian Labarum at the Torrelavega Town Hall. Credit: Zarateman / Wikimedia Commons However, when we add the adjective Cantabrian to the term labarum, the matter takes on another ...

Excavations led by the Mehmet Akif Ersoy University of Burdur (MAKÜ) at the archaeological site of the ancient Greek Kibyra, in southwestern Turkey, have brought to light fragments of four marble ...

It is very common to find images of birds in the art of Ancient Egypt. We see them in paintings and sculptures with species of all kinds, from the ducks hunted on the Nile to the ibis that lent its ...

Two tombs, two very different experiences. Walk into one and the space narrows around you, guiding your eyes along a fixed sequence of images. Walk into the other and the sound itself seems to come ...

A team of archaeologists, led by the University of West Bohemia (UWB), has brought to light, near the town of Chleby, in present-day Czech Republic, a monumental structure dating back more than 6,500 ...

For nearly two centuries, archaeologists excavating Nimrud, one of the capitals of the Assyrian Empire in present-day northern Iraq, focused their attention on the acropolis mound. There, they ...

A team of researchers from the Istanbul Technical University has used an innovative computational model to unravel the dynamics that allowed the legendary Neolithic city of Çatalhöyük, in present-day ...

Three decades have passed since the collection of gold jewelry appeared in the Šarkamen mausoleum, and now this Roman ...