The 2,000-year-old geoglyphs offer clues to the ancient Nazca people and their rituals.

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Whereas symbols and lines tend to be objective on a geologic map ... Now, the next time you are looking at a geologic map, ...

Western cultures have generally regarded bats with superstition and fear; but in China, expressed in art and handicrafts, the bat has achieved respectability as a symbol of happiness and good luck.

SUNNYVALE, CA — While most of her peers are navigating high school life, Indian American student Meenal Bahl’s days are not ...

An international team of experts has discovered that one of the figures on the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel, adorned with ...

The world's oldest known system of writing was influenced by symbols used for trade — engravings ... link the one with the other," he told Live Science in an email. "Furthermore, several of ...

But the origins of proto-cuneiform’s emergence have been murky, and many of its symbols remain undeciphered. Researchers conducting a careful analysis of proto-cuneiform symbols were surprised ...

Open and full of light, the new modern art museum is part of Warsaw's post-communist renaissance. Its architect, Thomas ...

WARSAW, Poland (AP) — The Polish capital on Friday is opening a modern art museum designed ... near the Palace of Culture and ...

Anthropologists have spent decades documenting a mysterious collection of symbols etched into the Peruvian desert, depicting everything from human decapitation and domesticated animals to ...

The grand opening of new modern art museum designed ... Palace of Culture and Science, a dominating Stalinist skyscraper. Though long hated by many who saw in it as a symbol of Moscow's oppression ...