The Greek Ministry of Culture announced a series of underwater discoveries in the seas surrounding Karpathos in the southeast Aegean.

In school, history often comes packaged in tidy chapters and predictable timelines, but let’s be honest, real history is anything but neat. It’s messy, dramatic, filled with surprises, and often way ...

Investigating questions of kinship, archaeologists discovered that treating non-blood relatives as family goes back to the ...

About 2,000 years ago, life in the Roman town of Pompeii—located in modern-day Italy—looked a lot like life anywhere else. However, on the morning of August 24, 79 C.E., the nearby Mount Vesuvius ...

Mohenjo-daro, one of the most prominent and sophisticated urban centers of the ancient world, has been revealed to be significantly older than previously believed. Recent archaeological excavations ...

Ancient animal history is extremely difficult to reconstruct, for a number of reasons. Some of the earliest creatures in existence were soft-bodied and microscopic, leaving behind very little evidence ...