Archaeologists have discovered the remains of a 3,000-year-old altar to the sun in North West China’s Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region. Experts say that [...]

A team of archaeologists has conducted a geophysical survey that has revealed what appears to be a cairn cemetery at the prehistoric ritual area around [...]

Long before modern warfare, there was a time of knights in shining armor atop equally armored horses fighting for the hand of a maiden or in pitched [...]

The Curiosity Mars Rover is now smart enough to pick its own targets of exploration, thanks to a new piece of software. Source: space

A full-size mockup of a Soviet Buran space shuttle is departing Moscow for an exhibition center opening at the site of the 2014 Winter Olympics. [...]

Timur, historically known as Tamerlane (1336 – 1405), was a Turco-Mongol conqueror and the founder of the Timurid Empire in Persia and Central Asia. [...]

Even a touch can kill. The Visha Kanyas were supposedly poisonous young women who operated as executioners in ancient India. Any contact with these toxic [...]

A medieval samurai text recently translated into English gives many practical tips on fighting an enemy and advises all warriors to be ‘pure of heart and [...]

From the beginning of time, those among us we now call artists have tried to capture in two dimensions what they saw of the real, three-dimensional world [...]

In the years 775 to 783 AD, Muqanna, known as the Veiled Prophet of Khorassan, led a popular uprising in the eastern part of the Abbasid Empire. For almost [...]