The tech tools are able to decipher and reconstruct fragments Hittite texts in a fraction of the time it has taken humans to ...

Throughout history, multiple ancient civilizations practiced the horrifying ritual of burying people alive. Victims included servants, prisoners, children, and religious sacrifices offered to gods or ...

A joint archaeological project between Greece’s culture ministry and a Chinese team of researchers is breaking new ground.

Their enemies portrayed them as barbarians, but their artifacts tell a different story. Between their weapons, jewelry, and sculptures, the Celts have proved they had complex civilizations with the ...

New archaeological evidence is helping rewrite old myths about disabled people in the ancient world. Early Roman Empire depiction of a Freedman and Freedwoman, 30-15 BCE. British Museum, London, UK.

“Some of these texts could completely rewrite the history of key periods of the ancient world,” says Robert Fowler, a classicist and the chair of the Herculaneum Society, a charity that tries to raise ...

David Heath is a List Writer from the UK specializing in video games, movies, TV shows, and the occasional anime. Streaming services offer a variety of ancient history documentaries to fulfill the ...

According to ancient Greek texts, this was a land of eternal spring, inhabited by a race of giants who lived for a thousand years without disease or war. They called it Hyperborea, a realm existing ...

In addition to the many magnificent historical monuments in Greece, the country boasts several unique sunken cities and ...

“There is a growing sense of the need for, even the urgency of change in the study of the Greeks and Romans. A feeling of crisis is often voiced. Some call for a move to ‘decolonise;’ others simply ...

As someone who researches slavery in the ancient Mediterranean world, especially in the Bible, I often hear remarks like, “Slavery was totally different back then, right?” “Well, it couldn’t have been ...