Few Finns play the bowed lyre, or jouhikko, an instrument whose roots stretch back thousands of years. For Tytti Metsä, its ...

Ancient Greek athletes used a variety of training methods to prepare for the Olympic Games and other such contests.

Ancient pine trees growing in the Iberian mountains of eastern Spain have quietly recorded more than five centuries of ...

Instruments like the those currently on the Red Planet were used to study samples collected from an 'Mars-like' area in Chile ...

Astronomers have discovered a vast, dense cluster of massive galaxies just 1 billion years after the Big Bang, each forming ...

But when John Koeninger picks up a guitar, his brain goes into overdrive. Gears turning, he’s analyzing tension, vibration, ...

Archaeologists uncover a 2,600-year-old Kubaba Temple at Oluz Mound in Turkey, revealing rare evidence of Iron Age rituals.

The key takeaway is that the paintings do not simply show people moving; they encode recognizable ritual elements - like clapping women, dancers in circles, and altered postures associated with trance ...

A faded outline of a human hand found on a cave wall in Indonesia may officially be the oldest known rock art in the world, ...

Who hates the saxophone?

Sometimes astronomers don't need giant telescopes to observe the wonders of the cosmos; they just need to look up at the ...

A recent Instagram video featuring elderly artisan Khata Nath playing the ancient Morchang in Rajasthan's Thar Desert has ...