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 ...

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

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.

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 ...

No one should base ideas of democratic reform on the belief that ancient Athenian “democracy” was an ideal form of government (5 October, p 32). Athens hardly invented democracy: there were ...

The Duke of Wellington is an ancient country pub in Surrey in a picture-postcard neighbourhood.

DMK youth wing criticizes ASI for hiding Tamil Nadu's ancient history, condemns BJP government for disrespecting Supreme Court judgment.

A television crew, visiting scores of West German classrooms to record student opinions on Nazism, found that nine out of every ten students 15 to 17 years of age had never heard of Hitler or, if ...

Five hundred acres of abandoned swamp land in Malmesbury, in Southern England, which, according to ancient records, was owned 1,200 years ago by Athelstan, King of the Saxons, have been reclaimed ...