One of the earliest depictions of cloth is the Venus of Lespugue. ... Around 2000 BCE, the first scissors were developed in ...

An Associate Professor of Astrophysics at the University of Portsmouth in the UK, Or Graur, discovered what is believed to be the oldest known depiction of the Milky Way in ancient Egyptian art.

Books that changed the world: Gilgamesh through the sands of time. The epic antedates even the depiction of the famous Trojan war; it is, in effect, the oldest epic found till date.

Around 4000 B.C., the earliest phase of the Sumerian culture arose as the oldest civilization in the Mesopotamia region, in what is now mostly Iraq.

Dated to around 40,000 years ago, the sculptures represent some of the oldest examples of figurative art, and the tiny carved bird is the oldest depiction of a bird anywhere in the world.

Here on Short Wave, we're getting into the Halloween spirit a little early with a look at the world's oldest mummies. They're found in modern-day northern Chile. The mummies are well-preserved, so ...

In addition to stylized depictions of women, the etchings appear to portray animals crucial to the survival of Late Upper Paleolithic peoples (roughly 24,000 to 14,000 years ago), including woolly ...