Research suggests the Bronze Age Santorini fresco monkeys may depict Indian langurs, revealing connections between Greece and ...

Poseidon, the Greek god of the seas, was originally a Minoan deity called Poteidan or Potidas. What do we know about this ...

Generations of creatives have looked back to ancient Egypt in their search for art and design inspiration—here are three ...

When Stonehenge-like megaliths in Brittany, a rainforest filled with cathedral-height caves, and an ancient palace that inspired Disney are all on the list of newly inscribed UNESCO World Heritage ...

From underwater pirate cities to secret Chinese tombs, UNESCO just minted some of the planet's most extraordinary ...

New research suggests the engraving, which shows an elite individual sitting in a boat, may be up to 5,100 years old ...

UNESCO has recently added 26 new sites to its World Heritage List, recognizing diverse cultural and natural landmarks across the globe. These addition ...

Other new Heritage Sites include Italy’s domus de janas, or ‘fairy houses’ in Sardinia, the Megaliths of Carnac and of Morbihan in France, the Minoan Palatial Centres of Crete in Greece and Gola-Tiwai ...

Bavarian palaces, imperial tombs in China and memorials to Khmer Rouge victims are among the sites being recognized by the ...

A 5,000-year-old rock engraving found in a cave in the 'Land of Gold' could rewrite the history of ancient Egypt as it could reveal the secrets of the earliest days of the first dynasty ...

Engravings carved into the sandstone near Aswan in Egypt might have been created at the beginning of the First Dynasty and ...

When I began exploring the history of Christianity and the art it inspired, I had no idea it would lead me to one of the ...