Animals have played roles that go far beyond their presence in the natural world since the times of ancient civilisations to ...

I desired dragons with a profound desire,” fantasy writer J.R.R. Tolkien once said about his childhood imagination, ...

There's still a lot left to learn when it comes to ancient history, and scientists are still finding locations long since ...

The unicorn first appears in the art of ancient Mesopotamia some time after 3000 ... With the unification of England and Scotland in 1707, the lion and the unicorn began to appear together with ...

and the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City (June 23-September 20, 2009). Unearthed from four ancient sites, the show's 228 works (including more than 100 pieces from the Bactrian trove ...

“It is a most remarkable place,” says archaeologist John Russell of the Massachusetts College of Art ... was breaking with the ancient religious traditions of Mesopotamia.

As a UNESCO Creative City, Santa Fe is an art ... ancient city of Mardin, an atmospheric destination that begs you to wander its alleys. Don’t miss the Assyrian monasteries or Dara (Mesopotamian ...

A roughly 4,800-year-old royal Mesopotamian cemetery in eastern Turkey appears to complicate existing theories about how some ...

LONDON - Phoenix Ancient Art, a prominent antiquities dealer, has faced a setback in its legal dispute with QIPCO (Qatar Investment and Project Development Holding Company) after a court issued a ...

PALMYRA, Syria — This ancient city, once one of the most important ... The temple where he is standing — Baalshamin — was dedicated to a Mesopotamian god of the sky and was one of the ...