Flower designs on 8,000-year-old Mesopotamian pots reveal a “mathematical knowledge” perhaps developed to share land and ...

One of the best-preserved ancient Roman homes on the Palatine Hill is opening to the public for the first time ...

The majority of the temple dates to the 7th century BC, but archaeologists discovered portions of the site that are even ...

Teeth provide a wealth of information about the lives of Iron Age Italians, according to a study published in the open-access ...

New research indicates that humans shaped their environments through hunting and controlled use of fire tens of thousands of ...

How was the great English playwright William Shakespeare influenced by ancient Greece, and how did he come to know about its ...

Children in Ancient Greece played with figurines that, much like modern Barbies, reflected the society and aspirations of ...

Australia's iconic red landscapes have been home to Aboriginal culture and recorded in songlines for tens of thousands of ...

Researchers have reconstructed ancient herpesvirus genomes from Iron Age and medieval Europeans, revealing that HHV-6 has ...

During the season 22 premiere episode of "Ancient Aliens" viewers tuning in will join skilled archaeologists as they take a ...

Dr. Rowan Martindale, a paleoecologist and geobiologist at the University of Texas at Austin, was walking through the Dadès Valley in the Central High Atlas Mountains of Morocco when she saw something ...