Ancient athletic competitions shaped how people thought about beauty, the body, self-control, education and competition. For victorious gladiators, the outcast and the slave could paradoxically embody ...

The Tintina fault, which stretched for around 600 miles and was dormant for tens of millions of years, had been accumulating ...

The inscriptions on which these signatures were featured had been detected in Serabit el-Khadim on the Sinai Peninsula of ...

Our knowledge of ancient literature comes to us through the hands of scribes. The works of Aristotle, Galen and Ptolemy ...

By turning ancient texts into immersive puzzles, these games spark curiosity and invite players to discover history in new, exciting ways.

The great mass of waters killed many thousands of people by drowning … the lifeless bodies of shipwrecked persons lay ...

Curators at the National Museum of World Culture in Sweden recently invited a group of Zambian women to help understand the ...

A 3,800-year-old inscription in Egypt may bear Moses' name, sparking global debate over its meaning and authenticity.

The unique quality of the Greek language lies in the fact that the phoneme of a word and the meaning of that word are mostly ...

This description of the teething process comes from a 3,000-year-old medical handbook from ancient Assyria and Babylonia. The ...

Scientists have been able to recreate the extreme conditions found on icy moons in deep space - and revealed the unstable ...

In 19th-century Maryland, artist and scientist Mary Elizabeth Banning emerged as one of America's first mycologists.