Delicate paper flowers, cut, painted, and layered like small rosettes, survived for roughly a millennium after being sealed inside a cave on China’s Silk Road. The discovery is a reminder that ...

Iraqi calligrapher Ali Zaman has completed a colossal handwritten Quran manuscript after six years of work. The masterpiece consists of 302 double-sided scrolls, each measuring about 13 by 4.9 ...

Handprints on cave walls in a largely unexplored area of Indonesia may be the oldest rock art studied so far, dating back to at least 67,800 ...

Fossils dating back 773,000 years from Thomas Quarry I in Morocco shed new light on the shared ancestry of Homo sapiens, Neandertals, and Denisovans. An international team of researchers has ...

Archaeologists have found 5,000-year-old ancient Egyptian rock art in the Sinai Desert that depicts the conquest of the region. Archaeologists have discovered 5,000-year-old rock art in the Sinai ...