Marie-Claire Beaulieu/The ConversationMany of us are heading to the beach to bask in the sun and unwind as part of our summer vacations.

A remarkable imperial stone inscription, tentatively dated to the Northern Wei Dynasty (386-534 AD), has been discovered carved into a natural granite boulder in the grasslands of Mongolia.

A new study argues that a 3,000-year-old hymn from the ancient Syrian port city of Ugarit shares remarkable musical patterns with sacred texts from ancient India, suggesting the existence of a global ...