An ancient Middle Eastern civilization that developed an early alphabet spread its culture far and wide — but not its DNA, finds a 23 April Nature study 1 of hundreds of ancient human genomes.

Archaeologists uncovered kneeling skeletons and rare artifacts in northern Vietnam, revealing insights into ancient Quỳnh Văn culture. Image: Quang Nam Province, Central Vietnam. Credit: Shawn ...

Gladiators also were pitted against animals. While there are depictions of these contests in ancient mosaics and texts, actual forensic evidence has been elusive, until now. Scientists have ...

Archaeologists have discovered a rare Ancient Egyptian inscription in Jordan in a major "first-of-its-kind" breakthrough. Featuring the royal seal of Ramses III in southern Jordan's Wadi Rum Reserve, ...

The walls of Thessaloniki. Credit: Wikimedia Commons, Elisa Triolo, CC-BY-SA-2.0 In the turbulent years following the conquest of Constantinople in 1204 during the Fourth Crusade, a number of ...

Though few have heard of the ancient queen, nearly everyone has heard of her grandson, Alexander the Great. "This is the only appropriate location that we have determined may be the ancient city ...

A study suggests that the first of seven key pyramids in Egypt, the Step Pyramid of Djoser, was built using a hydraulic lift. Dated to about 4,500 years ago, this would move up the introduction of ...

Is it the end of the world as we know it? The Prophecy of the Popes, a 900-year-old prescient manuscript, is believed by some to predict the next pontiff — and the end of the world. Pope Francis ...

After a pope dies, the Catholic Church chooses its next leader through an ancient electoral process called the "papal conclave." In practice, since at least 1276, the conclave gathers the church ...

charity concert, featuring Byzantine music, in support of children diagnosed with autism, on May 26. The goal of the concert is to raise the necessary funds to support families whose children have ...

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They lived off the sea, consuming oysters. Today, piles of ancient oyster shells are noticeable to people like Holland-Lulewicz, trained to see anomalies in soil layers. In some locations ...