A new study of nearly 300 ancient Scandinavian genomes has illuminated some sources of Vikings’ genetic ancestry.

Scientists have analyzed what they say is the oldest DNA recovered to date, allowing them to reconstruct what life was like two million years ago in northern Greenland. The findings suggest a rich ...

Some scholars speculated that events at Çatalhöyük resembled an ancient version of The Hunger Games, where only the strongest secured a chance for survival and reproduction.

New research is uncovering a richer, more complex picture of women's roles as wives, priestesses, and scholars in ancient Greece.

Researchers have discovered a 3,200-year-old Egyptian fort filled with archaeological treasures. Located at the Tell Al-Abqain excavation site in northwest Egypt, the buried structure contained ...

Host Mitch Jeserich recounts the story of how the decline and destruction of he Ancient Athenian Democracy happened. Included in this episode are such stories of how the Athenian Democracy turned into ...

Google DeepMind has collaborated with classical scholars to create a new AI tool that uses deep neural networks to help historians decipher the text of damaged inscriptions from ancient Greece ...

Ruins of a building with seven rooms emerged from underwater in Greece, officials said. Inside were ancient marble, stone & clay artifacts.

At least 80 skeletons were laid to rest in an ancient Greek burial site in Athens, with their wrists clamped together in iron shackles. The skeletons were found earlier this year.

Greece's Acropolis Museum opened an excavation site underneath its modern building on Friday, allowing visitors for the first time to walk through an ancient Athenian neighbourhood that survived ...

The trove, which was unearthed by youth volunteers, also included hundreds of smaller clippings from gold coins that would have served as smaller denominations.