Deep inside a labyrinthine cave in southwestern France, ancient humans who lived around 30,000 years ago carved horses, ...

What happens when Western artistic perspectives encounter the timeless beauty of Chinese ink painting? China Daily invites ...

But the Inca, whose world came to an end with the ... and an art tradition that was as bizarre as it was beautiful. “In ancient Peru, art conveyed valuable information about belief systems ...

The historical hall of fame tends to posit Hiram Bingham as the hero who located Peru’s foremost Inca site ... so effectively that all signs of the ancient city had vanished come the medieval ...

This ancient period of deep freeze, known as the Neoproterozoic Era, or “Snowball Earth,” lasted from about 1 billion to 543 million years ago. During that time, landmasses consolidated into a ...

From the rover's point of view on the ground, it's hard to tell, but this ancient shoreline on Mars seemed to lie inside a 2,050-mile-wide (3,300-kilometer-wide) impact crater called Utopia Basin.

It was just this month that an English-Egyptian archaeological mission revealed that it had uncovered the last missing tomb of a king from Ancient Egypt’s Eighteenth Dynasty, King Thutmose II ...

A new study of ancient DNA from fifth- to sixth-century Hun skeletons suggests they were a motley crew of mixed origin with a few connections to the Xiongnu Empire in Mongolia.

Cusco Ministry of Culture An intoxicated man in Cusco, Peru, has defaced a historic Inca artifact known as the 12-angled stone. The carved rock is a piece of a wall that once surrounded a historic ...