In 2018, construction work on a road in Taiyuan, the capital of Shanxi province in northern China, led to an unexpected ...

histories and cultures of ancient, medieval, and modern nations of the Central Asian region,” said Ashurov, who specializes in the languages and religions of pre-modern Central Asia, particularly ...

A Tang dynasty tomb in China reveals rare murals, including a blond man—an unexpected sign of Central Asian contact through ...

Located in rugged mountains, fertile river valleys, and uninhabitable desert, the 866-kilometre corridor runs from east to west along the Zarafshan River and further southwest following the ancient ...

NARA--An eighth-century pantry unearthed in the ancient Silk Road city of Samarkand ... including Chinese murals with images of Sogdians. The illustration shows the king and his retinue eating ...

The images on mural paintings and other media, archaeological discoveries, and the few references in the written texts show that worship in front of a fire was a significant part of the ritual ...

Amber deposits found in ancient deep-sea sediment may represent one of the oldest records to date of a tsunami, suggests research published in Scientific Reports.The study describes large amber ...

The Banquet of Cleopatra' by Giovanni Battista Tiepolo (1696-1770). Ancient ideas about diet were grounded in archaic theories about how the body worked. Most Greek and Roman doctors believed that ...

An earthquake in Croatia led to a chain of events that helped archaeologists recently discover an ancient Roman theater, officials say. Croatia’s Ministry of Culture and Media announced the find ...

Ancient military fortifications dating back to the Ptolemaic and Roman eras of Egyptian history were recently uncovered by archaeologists. The Egyptian Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities ...

Many ancient and modern pagan traditions, far from glorifying domination, emphasize reverence for nature, communal rituals, humility and the interdependence of all life. To equate all paganism ...

Apr. 14, 2025 — Wealth inequality began shaping human societies more than 10,000 years ago, long before the rise of ancient empires or the invention of writing. That's according to a new study ...