On the borderlands of early civilizations, people who considered one another alien met in moments of trade, warfare or simple ...

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Temples dedicated to respective Greek gods of the pantheon could be found in every corner of ancient Greece, but which was ...

As historian William Dalrymple puts it, the story of civilisation itself cannot be told without India, a land that once ...

Researchers at Liverpool John Moores University in the U.K. digitally removed face masks from ancient Colombian mummies ...

“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 ...

Turns out, ancient body art is a lot more common than we once thought—and it's providing historians with new ways of ...

Luke Kemp’s Goliath Curse explores how inequality, disease and climate impacted civilisations and shows that change often brings progress.

Over the past two decades, exhibits like Gods in Color and Chroma have popularized the idea that the ancient world was awash in color. But what do we really know about how ancient peoples understood ...

The hydraulic telegraph, a telecommunications device invented by ancient Greeks, allowed the sending of long distance ...

There’s no rehabilitating the reputation of Caligula. The 1st-century C.E. Roman Emperor has gone down in the annals of history accused of deeply transgressive behavior, to say nothing of his ...