Recent archaeological discoveries across the Americas are reshaping our understanding of ancient history. At the forefront is ...

Ghosts stories appear in several surviving texts from ancient Rome. What do they reveal about the people who told them?

In an excerpt from his new book Dinner with King Tut, Sam Kean explores a weird and wild '90s experiment to replicate ancient ...

Cliff-rappelling scientists uncovered a crossbow bolt, part of a slingshot and 25 shoes in ancient vulture nesting sites ...

Is it the long-faded colors of ancient artifacts from all around the world or the hushed sounds of visitors discussing what ...

New research shows that the rise of Sumer was deeply tied to the tidal and sedimentary dynamics of ancient Mesopotamia. Early ...

Nine Queensland high schools taught year 12 students the wrong topic for today's external ancient history exam, but the ...

From the Greeks and the Romans to the Ottoman empire, the history of Sardis, Turkey, is one of persistent turnover. But its ...