New books by Mia Tsai, J.R. Dawson, Daniel Kraus and Seth Haddon explore how we recall the past when everything falls apart.

We all know the New Kingdom mummies from ancient Egypt were preserved with a certain sophistication and advanced skill that we are still mesmerized by to this day. But what none of us knew is that ...

Could an Egyptian coffin, dated 5,000 years ago, hold the answer to one of the night sky’s greatest mysteries? University of ...

To the casual observer, they're just a pack of playing cards. But to initiates, the mysterious figures of the Tarot deck symbolize the keys to ancient wisdom. The 78 cards can be employed to unlock ...

New research from HKU geologists suggests that Earth's first continents were born not from plate tectonics, but from deep ...

Scindian rulers, who ruled Gwalior state, played an important role in Indo-Greek heritage preservation in India.

Constantine VII Porphyrogenitus, the Byzantine Emperor who preferred books and who offered us a detailed account of Byzantine ...

The fifth International Forum on the Collection, Study, Publication of Ancient Texts is recently held in Hohhot, Inner ...

Plus: a new novel from Gary Shteyngart, a true story of a shipwreck, and a memoir from a wrongly incarcerated inmate who was ...

A traveling workshop of TAU's Orit Guardians program discovered two 15th-century Orit books—the oldest found to date in the ...

Unlock the secrets of ancient Egyptian architecture and learn how the Great Pyramids have withstood time's test for millennia.