A study says the Ain Samiya goblet, found in 1970, depicts a moment of cosmic creation, challenging previous scholarly ...

From Homer to Philostratus, Ancient Greek sources describe Pygmies as dwarves at the world’s edge, fighting cranes and living ...

Making fire on demand was a milestone in the lives of our early ancestors. But the question of when that skill first arose ...

To boost our understanding of a little-known civilization that thrived more than 3,000 years ago, scientists have built an ...

Archaeologists have finished uncovering the longest continuous remains of an ancient wall that encircled Jerusalem, including possible evidence of a 2,100-year-old ceasefire between warring ...

The origins of ancient Greek city names like Athens and Olympia reflect mythology, history, and the development of Greek ...

A group of scientists are studying the Cyclades, an island group in Greece's Aegean Sea, looking for signs of early human ...

The Ancients host Tristan Hughes and historian Roel Konijnendijk debate some wild theories about Ancient Greece, and Ancient ...

Ancient Roman ideas of privacy differed radically from our own, and their communal toilets reveal a mindset almost impossible ...

Layers of forgotten civilisations shape these ancient-world books that avoid Egypt, Greece and Rome, bringing vivid echoes of ...

Ancient Rome didn’t just dominate the ancient world — it pioneered extreme urban living. At its peak, between 800,000 and 1.2 million people lived within a footprint of just 24 km², giving Rome a ...

The discovery of the settlements over the years has led to a new understanding of the Asia Minor and Anatolia regions.