An archaeological excavation in Turkey recently yielded a Roman hospital-turned-Christian sanctuary, offering new insight ...

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

The 1-inch pottery fragment, which is part of a seal that was used to authenticate official documents, was reportedly found ...

The finding may allow archaeologists to determine whether a woman was pregnant or had recently given birth at the time of her ...

Some of the recent advances in the quest to catch a whiff of history are featured in the new book Scents of Arabia: ...

The genetic link between bones discovered thousands of miles away from each other suggests a prehistoric migration route.

Long before there were maps or names for continents, a handful of people stood at the edge of the world. Picture them on a ...

For decades, Paranthropus robustus has intrigued scientists as a powerful, big-jawed cousin of early humans. Now, thanks to ancient protein analysis, researchers have cracked open new secrets hidden ...

From looping hallways to echoing stairwells, eerie architecture taps into ancient survival instincts—and exposes how our ...

The Mughals did not invent these ideas; they inherited them from a civilisation that had already mastered the dialogue ...

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

Hygieia was a prominent figure in both ancient Greek and Roman mythology—she was the daughter of Asclepius, the god of medicine. Hygieia (from whose name we get the word ‘hygiene’) was known as the ...