An etching of a band on a piece of pottery, made by a 5,000-year-old seal, is thought to be the most ancient musical scene ... from the third millennium BC. 'This is when most of the "cultic ...

A tablet from 5079 BC, found in Greece and severely damaged ... present-day Iraq, between 3,000 and 4,000 BC. The Ancient ...

In Greek mythology, Daedalus was commissioned by King Minos to build the labyrinth to imprison the Minotaur, a terrible beast ...

To study this history, population geneticist Harald Ringbauer at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in ...

The ancient Egyptians invented one of the earliest known writing systems used from around 3000 BC. The symbols they used were called hieroglyphs, which comes from a Greek word meaning ...