Many of the world’s most fascinating archaeological sites are overshadowed by their more famous neighbors, leaving countless ...

Richard Bevan reveals the real stories behind the world’s lost cities - how they fell, how they were found, and why their ...

From politics to the Oscars, the #MeToo movement is spotlighting the nature of women’s relationship to power. Why are traditional positions of power still closed to so many? How do women work within ...

The humble plant that grows in the Nile had a huge impact on the written word in ancient Egypt, Greece and Rome and thereby on the cultures of the rest of the world. A small museum in Cairo shows how ...

There’s something electric about walking down a street where every stone beneath your feet has witnessed empires rise and fall. In a handful of places around the globe, the ancient past doesn’t hide ...

Although we often romanticize the bare marble of ancient sculpture today, most of these specimens were in fact painted in bright shades of blue, red, yellow, brown and many other hues. Over the past ...

According to National Geographic, the map depicts distances between gates in the wall surrounding the Mesopotamian city of Nippur, but for decades experts questioned its accuracy. The locations of ...

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

Stories set in ancient worlds beyond Egypt, Greece and Rome offer a rare sense of distance and depth. These historical books ...

Cancer is widespread today, but it doesn’t appear to have been in the ancient world. Why not? Researchers are learning more about the history of cancer and how civilizations have treated it. A study ...

Thousands of years before Monopoly, people were playing games like Senet, Patolli and Chaturanga Meilan Solly - Senior Associate Digital Editor, History Long before Settlers of Catan, Scrabble and ...

Some common foods that we have in our pantries can be traced back to ancient times. Take a look at the deep history of our ...