On Sept. 27, 1822, French philologist Jean-François Champollion announced that he had deciphered ancient Egyptian ...

Aylwyn Scally, a researcher in human evolutionary genetics at the University of Cambridge, discusses an ancient skull that ...

A few dozen enthusiasts of ancient hunting tools participated in the Northeast Open Atlatl Championship in Addison, Vermont ...

California's Sierra Nevada glaciers have remained intact for at least 10,000 years. New research shows they will vanish ...

A Roman centurion in sneakers and sunglasses? That is the kind of playful distortion AI image generators sometimes produce when depicting the past. To address this, scholars in classical studies have ...

Mycenaean Palaces of the second millennium BC to the fall of the Roman Empire in the 5th century AD; it covers the birth, rise and fall of the Greek and Roman civilisations within their Mediterranean ...

When we picture the history of money, many imagine barter leading naturally to coins, then paper bills, then cards and ...

In 1990, an ancient human skull was unearthed in China's Hubei Province that was so badly deformed during fossilization that ...

This video explores how Venice, unlike other Italian cities, was shaped by its deep ties to Byzantium. From its early days as a refuge after the fall of Rome to its role in the Fourth Crusade and the ...

A new study suggests a habitable past and signs of ancient microbial processes on Mars. Led by NASA and featuring key analysis from Imperial College London, the work has uncovered a range of minerals ...

Archaeologists in Romania have unearthed an elite Roman family's ancient treasure, buried for centuries beneath the remains of a millennia-old city. The discovery, announced by the National History ...

Palaspata temple linked to the Tiwanaku empire has been discovered in Bolivia, an archaeological find that redefines Andean political.