Finger Cutting Mourning Rituals of the Dani Tribe The practice of finger-cutting among the Dani tribe of Indonesia is indeed ...

As evidence of alcohol's harms mounts, some people are testing out sobriety. Look to ancient civilizations' ways for a reset, scholars suggest.

Archaeologists in Jordan have discovered a landscape of megalithic monuments that offer insight into how ancient societies ...

Now at the Kimbell Art Museum, this exhibition is the first in the U.S. to display works from a vast, vital Italian ...

It was common for ancient cultures to communally take hallucinogens, but this society did things much differently. An international team of archaeologists has revealed the role hallucinogenic drugs ...

An exhibition at New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art explores how the gods were portrayed by Egyptians both royal and ...

Two University of Arizona professors have been honored with membership in the prestigious Institute for Advanced Study in New ...

The seized items include a funerary statue valued at $6 million that likely came from an archaeological site near the ancient ...

The powerful gods of ancient Egypt are having a get-together on Manhattan’s Upper East Side. That would be at the ...

The tablets were found within a thick layer of ash from an ancient fire, suggesting they survived a catastrophic event that destroyed part of the city. According to the announcement, the inscribed ...