Archaeologists in Spain have uncovered an elephant bone from 2,200 years ago, and they believe it belonged to an animal that served as a “war machine” in an army sent to invade the Roman Republic.

NASA’s Curiosity rover has assembled a string of chemical evidence from ancient Martian rocks that, taken together, builds the strongest circumstantial case yet for conditions that could have ...

Claudio Zonta reviews Dialoghi by Ziad Trabelsi and Gabriele Coen, where oud and clarinet weave a cross-Mediterranean dialogue of culture, roots, and peace.

Egyptian craftspeople mastered reliable rotary drilling more than two millennia before some of the best-preserved drill sets.” ...

In ancient Greece, music education was as important as philosophy in cultivating young people's souls, perceiving both ...

After years of silence, Basant returns, and Lahore’s kites wait — patient, hopeful, and ready to lift the city’s spirit once more.

The parchments initially contained references to a star catalog and maps created during the second century B.C.E.

Are your loved ones in luck this year? Seeour predictions for all the zodiac signs in the Year of the Horse. I have just sent off a tranche of Lunar New Year cards to friends and family, especially ...

The lights dimmed, and a hushed murmur of anticipation spread through the packed crowd at Beijing's Blue Note in January. This was no ordinary concert; it was a musical reinvention. At the heart of it ...

It isn’t just Weldon Gray who lights up when he shows off one of the many banjos he’s built over the years, pointing out every detail of the instrument’s construction and intricate decoration.

Can a single string produce sound? Yes, a single string really can. The Jing ethnic group's single-stringed instrument, through the plucking of its string by the fingertips, weaves the breath of the ...

Cast and crew breathing and vocalizing together. Banging giant metal plates in a London warehouse. Inventing impressionistic vocal colors for the Elizabethan era. Hiring a 90-piece orchestra to ...