Ancient Greek statues and artistic treasures housed in Paris museums depict the Greeks' influence on the entire European continent.

Two books explore the scandals and controversies around the acquisition of antiquities by curators and collectors.

As of then, Indian civilization’s antiquity had been traced up to the 3rd century BCE – in Mauryan Buddhist Emperor Asoka’s ...

The Gandhara art persisted until the 7th century and had some influence on the Buddhist sculptures seen in China and other ...

The doctrine of progress, the fin de siècle historian J.B. Bury observed, is one of the central ideas of Western civilization ...

Written by the former chief historian of NASA, the book examines the evolution of our cosmic understanding—from early civilizations to the present day ...

Famous philosophers like Socrates, Karl Marx, W.E.B. Du Bois, and Ayn Rand have challenged the way we consider the world and ...

Cultures invest great efforts into creating a long-term memory on the basis of oral transmission, media technology, and institutional frameworks. This book provides an introduction to the concept of ...

The Arecibo message contained an image of a man only. But what might seem a sexist choice deserves a more subtle ...

Here, we explore six notable civilizations that have collapsed, shedding light on some of the causes behind their demise and ...

Nabataeans established a mysterious, ancient kingdom and had a reputation for great accomplishments with links to Greece and Rome.