History has long celebrated its ancient world pioneers, yet many great deeds of overlooked figures have faded with their names.

The mega structures of the ancient world are famously awe-inspiring. They showcase the ingenuity, ambition and ...

Nebelivka, a Ukrainian village of about 700 people, sits amid rolling hills and grassy fields. Here at the edge of Eastern Europe, empty space stretches to the horizon. It wasn’t always so. Beneath ...

In the center of Siena, Italy, a cathedral has stood for nearly 800 years. A black-and-white layer cake of heavy stone, fine-cut statuary, and rich mosaics, the imposing structure—now visited by more ...

Across the world’s continental shelves, scientists are racing to reconstruct an ancient landscape that once stretched where ...

The Department of History at The Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK) invites applications for a full-time, substantiation-track post at the rank of assistant professor in the field of Ancient World ...

Reading the news these days is often a depressing and anxiety inducing task. The sources of these modern human malignancies are generally the same: male leaders who want to maintain economic, ...

“Everyone has heard of each of the Seven Wonders of the World, but few have seen all of them for themselves. To do so one has to go abroad to Persia, cross the Euphrates river, travel to Egypt, spend ...

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 ...

AlUla, located in northwestern Saudi Arabia, is an ancient desert oasis famed for its stunning rock formations, ...

A former atheist shared a video online suggesting that 2026 could be a crucial year for the planet after analysing timelines ...