Deipnosophistae is a work by Athenaeus, written around 200 CE, about well-read people philosophizing at the dinner table and enjoying good food and drink. The title is a combination of two words: ...

Apr. 2, 2025 — Jurassic dinosaurs milled about ancient Scottish lagoons, leaving up to 131 footprints at a newly discovered stomping ground on the Isle of Skye in Scotland, according to a new ...

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 ...

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.

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

Instead, the study suggests, Deinosuchus belonged to an ancient lineage that split off before the last common ancestor of today’s alligators and crocodiles, carrying characteristics that are ...

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 ...

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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 ...