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

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

A unique exhibit on display at the Walters Art Museum combines the love of animals with ancient history.

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 ...

On the northwestern coast of modern-day Turkey, the city at the heart of Homer’s Iliad and the Trojan War was somewhere between myth and history until ruins were discovered in Hisarlık in the late ...

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 ...

Recently, more and more foreign authors have been turning to ancient Greece to get inspiration for their novels.

North America's ancient cultural trails, predating European arrival, reveal indigenous traditions and survival strategies.

A newly described fossil reveals that leeches are at least 200 million years older than scientists previously thought, and ...

Explores the history of the Roman Empire through the eyes of Empress Livia Drusilla, examining the reign of her husband Augustus, as well as the reigns of Tiberius, Caligula, Claudius, and Nero. In ...

Digital reconstruction of a crushed skull from an ancient human could rewrite the timeline of human evolution, according to ...

This new finding indicates that people were living in the region about 2,000 years earlier than previously thought. However, ...