The Penn Museum's Penn Cultural Heritage Center is launching a study on the collection practices of museums across the United States. Credit: Chenyao Liu The Penn Museum’s Penn Cultural Heritage ...

If your idea of a fun museum experience includes adopting a cover and memorising your alias’s vitals—age, provenance, travel plans and itinerary (you’ll be asked questions later)—you’ve ...

THE thesis which it is proposed to outline here embodies the following propositions: (1) Available evidence points to Mesopotamia as the oldest known centre of scientific observation permanently ...

Focaccia has been a staple of Italian meals since at least ancient Rome, but new research indicates the flatbread’s origins date as far back as the Neolithic Era. According to some archeologists ...

ceremonial buildings and storage areas, as well as fortifications such as high walls and moats, have been found at the Taosi site, showing that it is a capital settlement of an ancient state, Gao ...

At the Bahra 1 site in northern Kuwait, Polish archaeologists have discovered a clay figurine that is 7,000 years old and ...

Sculptures representing a scene of ancient people making utensils are displayed at the Taosi Site Museum. [Photo by FENG SIQUAN/FOR CHINA DAILY] A museum collecting and exhibiting cultural relics ...

This is not, in fact, a temple complex in Egypt, but the Museo Egizio in Turin, the world’s oldest museum entirely dedicated to ancient Egyptian culture—currently at a critical juncture in its ...

Lansdale Library members can get more than just books with their cards – they can save money on museums and pool passes. The library offers passes for museums that can be checked out just like a book ...

Humans have been baking for millennia, and now, reconstructions of ancient baking trays suggests the families in Mesopotamia may have been making some of the same things on our plates today.