A study of ancient human DNA from a wetland region in Belgium, western Germany, and the Netherlands yielded surprising ...

There is a perceptible Roman bias in the teaching of law, but the ancient Greeks were actually also quite influential.

The life expectancy of ancient Greeks has been a subject of controversy among historians. But what was their actual lifespan?

Ancient Egypt in North Africa was one of the most powerful and influential civilizations in the region for over 3,000 years, from around 3100 B.C to 30 B.C. It left behind numerous monuments, ...

Ancient Greece is traditionally remembered for its philosophy, mythology, and great buildings—but there's a lesser-known side that hardly finds its way into textbooks. Under the neat image is a world ...

Ancient Egyptian bow drills previously didn't appear in the archaeological record until the New Kingdom, circa the second millennium BCE. Nearly a century ago, archaeologists excavating a cemetery in ...

Ancient Greece is often credited with numerous innovations that have shaped our modern world. From philosophy and democracy ...

At first blush, the structures in New Mexico built by the Chacoan people and those in Ohio traced to the Hopewell culture bear little resemblance. The Chacoans, accommodating the arid desert of their ...

When Napoleon Bonaparte embarked upon a military expedition to Egypt in 1798, he took with him a team of scholars, scientists and artists. Together, they produced the monumental Description de ...

Discover the evolution of economics from ancient times to modern theories that influence global markets, including Adam Smith and Keynesian approaches.