President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi warmly welcomed the distinguished guests of Egypt and the Egyptian people, in a speech, which ...

While the idea of a sweet treat dates back thousands of years, the concept of "candy" has been around for hundreds of years. These are some of the oldest candies in human history.

Zhao Yingxin, the general planner of the exhibition, says photographs play an extremely significant role in the progress of civilization, as they record how civilizations move forward and develop.

DNA shines a light back into the past, showing us things that fossils can't. But how far back can that light extend? Some of the oldest DNA sequences come from mastodon and polar bear fossils about 50 ...

The Elamite Empire, which dates back to 3200–539 BCE, is considered to be one of the oldest civilizations in the world, that ...

Consuming food all by oneself is an anomaly in the history of human civilization, a deviation from millennia of tradition.

New research reveals Sumer’s cities may have risen with the tides, rewriting the origin story of the world’s first ...

The Western genre has countless gunslingers and criminals, but one HBO series is one of the best and smartest Westerns ever.

The discovery of the oldest human remains ever found in Antarctica has stunned researchers, raising new questions about early human exploration and survival in one of the harshest environments on ...

Australia has one of the longest histories of continuous human occupation outside Africa. But who exactly were the first people to settle there? Such a question has obvious political implications and ...

The Minoan civilization was a Bronze Age civilization that was based on the island of Crete, in the Aegean Sea. This civilization flourished from around 3000 BC to around 1100 BC. The Minoan ...

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