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

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

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

New horror movie Whistle features a death scene so "insane", director Corin Hardy had to go back and reread it during his first peek at the script.

Centuries ago, Jingdezhen exported its ceramics, including exquisite blue-and-white porcelain, to Central Asia, West Asia, ...

In this two-part article, the author presents an overview of what various ancient textual artifacts “remember” about the earliest loan closings ...

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

The sound often called the "scariest in the world" is produced by the Aztec death whistle, an ancient instrument that creates a terrifying, human-like scream by matching the frequency of fearful human ...

The UK’s brass band tradition might go back further than we thought... Archaeologists have discovered one of Britain’s rarest ancient instruments: an Iron Age carnyx, a bronze battle trumpet once used ...

Wu Man is a master of the Chinese pipa, a lute-like instrument with a 2,000-year history. She stopped by NPR to talk about her fresh twist on... Pipa Virtuoso Wu Man Brings Ancient Chinese Music To ...