Elon Musk funds AI-powered archaeology in Rome, pledging $1M to help researchers digitally rebuild ancient sites and rewrite ...

Ancient Greek thinkers, from Hesiod to Plato, and later Rousseau saw in the noble savage a vision of lost divine harmony and ...

“Great civilizations are not murdered. Instead, they take their own lives.” The great historian Arnold Toynbee concluded this ...

Archaeologists in France have uncovered a 1,700-year-old ancient Roman funerary area, including burials with libation conduits hilariously akin to today’s watering spikes.

Long before municipal water treatment plants and chlorination, ancient societies faced the same essential challenge we ...

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In the latest news that will all but convince you the end is nigh, there’s a TikTok influencer out there trying to convince the interwebs that the ancient Roman civilization never existed, and is ...

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The artefacts, which belong to the prehistoric Kuli and Naal cultures of Balochistan, date back nearly 5,000 years. They ...

Early Etruscans had advanced knowledge of art, farming and metallurgy, leading some historians to believe the civilization originated elsewhere before settling in what is now Italy. DNA analysis shows ...