Trying to imagine what everyday life looked like during Jesus’s time is pretty difficult. It was thousands of years ago, after all. But you just need to take a look at the fields for a better ...

New research reveals early humans ate processed plant foods, challenging long-held beliefs behind the Paleo Diet.

Greek statues are admired worldwide for their extraordinary beauty, but do they truly reflect the actual appearance of the ...

Saudi Arabia’s AlUla is preparing to open new chapters in the history of the ancient city of Dadan, the former capital of the ...

Archaeologists suspect the ancient society carried out two types of human sacrifices – one that involved mass burials of men ...

In a remote stretch of canyon country along the US-Mexico border, painted walls are rewriting what we think we know about the ...

The inundation of water was more than just provision for crops and fields: the Egyptians called the event the coming of Hapy, ...

Oxford University Press recently named “rage bait” as its Word of the Year, but another word on the shortlist caught everyone ...

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 ...

Discover how ancient conch shell trumpets in Spain helped Neolithic people communicate over distances 6,000 years ago. New study reveals their horn like sounds and cultural role.

Evidence from Newgrange suggests ancient Ireland was more egalitarian than once believed, with no clear signs of a ruling ...

For decades, archaeologists believed that cats first started living alongside early farming communities in the Levant — covering parts of today’s Middle East and eastern Mediterranean — around 9,500 ...