Stories set in ancient worlds beyond Egypt, Greece and Rome offer a rare sense of distance and depth. These historical books ...
Though rare, female gladiators did appear in the Roman arena, challenging ancient Rome’s expectations and revealing how ...
There’s something electric about walking down a street where every stone beneath your feet has witnessed empires rise and fall. In a handful of places around the globe, the ancient past doesn’t hide ...
Archaeologists revealed more wonders of the ancient world in 2021. They ranged from a lost city, a mummy with a golden tongue, and 2,400-year-old baskets of fruit. We document some of the best ...
Students and staff at Trinity College Dublin have produced the world's first film in the ancient - and dead - Sumerian ...
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She married her brother, then he died. The monument to her grief was a Wonder of the Ancient World
The Mausoleum at Halicarnassus, in modern-day Turkey, was an ornate memorial built for Carian ruler Mausolus and overseen by his sister-wife Artemesia II.
Richard Bevan reveals the real stories behind the world’s lost cities - how they fell, how they were found, and why their ...
On Native American Heritage Day, we examine a long-overlooked marvel of ancient engineering that had been tucked away beneath ...
The extinct rhinoceros, described in the journal Nature Ecology & Evolution, is the northernmost rhino known to have ever ...
The Jomon people—who eventually settled in what is now Japan—share little, if any, genetic connection to the Denisovan population that’s spread throughout Eurasia.
Researchers reveal 2,700-year-old records from ancient China that offer new insights into Earth's rotation and solar activity ...
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