Human history feels straightforward when seen in textbooks. A neat timeline with a clear rise from simple tools to complex ...

The ancient city of Napata, located in what is now northern Sudan, stood for centuries as a powerful urban and cultural center of the Kingdom of Kush. A new study explains how the city owed its ...

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

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

Ancient Greece, the cradle of Western civilization, was responsible for creating five of the seven wonders of the ancient world.

“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 ...

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.