In antiquity and now, inconsistency and illogicality lie at the heart of the human effort to imagine what happens when we’re dead ...

Excavations on unpromising mounds in the Iraqi desert revealed Sumer’s earliest city. Surviving relics and a rebuilt temple have given experts more clues about the ancient metropolis of Eridu.

The findings center on a single skeleton discovered in a Roman-period cemetery outside York in England, a site believed to ...

The first physical evidence of Roman gladiators fighting animals has been found in skeletal remains from England ...

The many Punic settlements in north Africa and Sicily help explain admixtures from those parts of the world. But the Greek ...

The Phoenician culture emerged in the Bronze Age city-states of the Levant, developing prominent innovations such as the ...

The discovery sheds some light on a "lost" dynasty of pharaohs who ruled during a little-understood time in ancient Egypt's long history. Archaeologists from Egypt and the U.S. unearthed the tomb ...

To study this history, population geneticist Harald Ringbauer at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in ...

Remains of what may be the ancient capital city of the Kingdom of Lyncestis have been found in North Macedonia.

Latnija cave discoveries show Mesolithic humans crossed 100 km of sea to reach Malta 1,000 years earlier than previously ...

While interhuman relationships may go back to the early years of humanity, there is one ritual known the world over that has a much more recent history ... embraced by the ancient Hebrews ...

Ancient Greeks developed sophisticated units of measurement ranging from measuring length, distance, volume, and weight of ...