Researchers from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) have made a groundbreaking discovery, revealing traces of a ...

The strange and powerful symbol at the heart of one of history’s greatest temples reveals the importance of the goddess ...

The most comprehensive geoarchaeological survey of Egypt’s Karnak Temple complex has been carried out by an international ...

“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 ...

Channel 5 has boarded as the first broadcast partner for the Keshet International and SandStone Global co-production Seven Wonders of the Ancient World. The three-part history docuseries, presented by ...

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

“G reek literature contains the germs of almost everything, so you can treat of almost all tendencies in treating of it,” the Hellenist Gilbert Murray wrote in the year 1900. One and a quarter ...

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 ...

The Civil Courts Building in downtown St. Louis is one of those buildings everyone knows—and many of us know it so well, it’s become almost invisible. Yet there it looms, right at the intersection of ...

Can you name the first U.S. astronaut to orbit the earth? Or which ancient queen married two of her brothers? How about this one: Do you know the artist who painted the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel?