From sketched ideas in the Codex Atlanticus, Leonardo da Vinci's largest collection of documents and drawings, his innovative ...

To honour this act of devotion, Muslims around the world perform korban, a ritual animal sacrifice, during Eid al-Adha. Korban involves the slaughter of livestock such as goats, sheep or cows, ...

A Mesopotamian myth from nearly 4,000 years ago tells of a man who builds a boat to save the world from a divine flood, long ...

Religious temples across China shelter thousands of ancient trees, including species extinct in the wild.

Some people think that learning history might be useless. "It already happened, what's the point?" Yet the truth is that ...

A Cambrian fossil once thought to be a mollusk ancestor is now identified as a chancelloriid relative, reshaping ideas about ...

Chinese archaeologists have discovered the tomb of Kim Young, a hostage prince from the ancient kingdom of Silla, in Xi'an, ...

Religious monuments in China have provided a refuge for ancient trees for thousands of years, including dozens of endangered species and some that are extinct in the wild, a study of nearly 50,000 ...

China hopes to become a global leader in protected nature reserves, creating a network of wilderness that would be three ...

This allowed different groups to converge on the site, feed their animals, and bury dead members ... the tombs of Turpan could reveal how ancient China interacted with the rest of the world.

Ophiocordyceps are named because they infect the brain of their hosts to then manipulate the ant’s behaviour. Zombie-ant fungi have gained widespread recognition as the inspiration behind the ...