The Road to Ruin In the summer of 216 BCE, the Roman Republic believed it was closing in on victory.…
Browsing: Ancient History
A note before we begin The history of Palestine and Israel is often described as controversial. From an academic history…
Rome never slept. Even at night, the city breathed—fires glowing in bakeries, footsteps echoing on stone, prayers whispered to impatient…
A newly published paper in Nature supports the famous Norwegian explorer Thor Heyerdahl’s theory that South American natives sailed to…
The oldest and largest Maya monumental structure on record has just been discovered after scientists used LIDAR from a plane…
US archaeologists have discovered two monumental royal tombs dating from about 3,500 years ago near a major Mycenaean-era palace in…
A team of maritime archaeologists, scientists, and surveyors has discovered at the bottom of the Black Sea what is thought…
Knowledge of the diet of people living in the prehistoric settlement of Çatalhöyük almost 8000 years ago has been completed…
The earliest evidence for cheese making in the Mediterranean has been found in pottery from Croatia’s Dalmatian coast, according to…
A sarcophagus from the ancient Roman era has been discovered, containing remnants of a young woman and a complete makeup…
Finding the parvovirus B19 in archaeological skeletal findings can both provide new knowledge about future diseases and also what contacts…
Geoglyphs are huge figures created on the ground and can be viewed from far distances. The most famous are the…
A 4,000-year-old harbor was found by chance in the middle of the desert in southern Iraq. The discovery gives…
Researchers have discovered a large hidden cavity inside the Great Pyramid of Giza—also known as the Cheops (Khufu) Pyramid—using subatomic…
Volcanic eruptions in the Northern Hemisphere may have contributed to unrest and conflict in ancient Egypt, according to a study…