A groundbreaking interdisciplinary study has unveiled the dramatic 2,000-year history of a population living at the southern edge of the ancient Andean farming frontier. By analyzing ancient DNA from ...

Before Pompeii was engulfed in volcanic ash, its walls may have been battered by an ancient "machine gun" while the city was under siege. A study has uncovered compelling evidence that Roman forces ...

A team of archaeologists led by the study's lead author, Ivan Spreits, identified a series of unusual architectural ...

Take a journey through Ancient Pella and experience history come alive with detailed exploration of ancient sites fascinating ...

One of my favorite places to learn about China's ancient history is Dunhuang, a small, county-level city in Gansu province. After many visits, you still won't be able to grasp all there is to learn.

US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) officials raised the recall to Class II following reports that the bottles contained a ...

Boxing in ancient Greece originated as a very tough sport, much harder than professional boxing as we know it today.

The findings of a new study by a Charles Sturt University researcher and colleagues challenge a long-standing assumption used ...

Kizhambi, a verdant village near Kancheepuram, has a long history, as seen from the evidence provided by the vestiges in the ...

Before the modern world, there was Hades. For the Ancient Greeks, the 'Underworld' wasn't just a story—it was a terrifying ...

An obscure ancient Egyptian text discovered in the 19th century led to discoveries that rewrote the timeline of early medical ...

To understand how we started counting, and still count today, 24 hours in a day, 60 minutes in an hour and 60 seconds in a minute, though, we need to wind the clock back to an era before the dawn of ...