To understand how New Year traditions came into existence – especially in the British Isles – is to explore a complex ...

Across the globe, a race is under way to crack some of the last mysterious forms of writing that have never been translated.

Halafian pottery shows that early agricultural societies practiced advanced mathematical thinking through plant-based art long before writing.

When a relative died, I was given an extraordinary artifact—and a head-spinning journey down a 25-year ethical rabbit hole.

Abu Dhabi has quietly emerged as one of the Middle East’s most compelling cultural destinations. The Louvre Abu Dhabi anchors ...

A full cabinet of marvelous costars includes Tommy Lee Jones, David Strathairn, James Spader, Hal Holbrook, Adam Driver, Lee ...

A Study Gallery of India and the Ancient World, trains its lens to the duration between the Harappan civilisation — which began roughly 5000 years ago — and the Gupta Empire in the 6th century CE ...

The definition of "Britishness" as a set of shared values is being replaced by a "worrying" rise in ethno-nationalism, a ...

Back in 2015, two men happened to find millions of dollars worth of ancient Viking treasure. What happened next will stun you. A heavy gold ring. A gold armband. A crystal ball. Then there were the ...

The British Museum has sent treasures from its collection back to India in a bid to 'undo colonial misinterpretation'. Eighty artefacts from ancient Greece and Egypt have been transferred to Mumbai's ...

A faded label suggested the bones had been unearthed at the nearby Beachy Head cliffs sometime in the 1950s, though specific details of the original excavation had been lost to time. What followed was ...

Cumbria arguably has one of the best dining scenes in the U.K.—taste it for yourself at the three Michelin-starred ...