Squat rhinos lived in North America about 12 million years ago, congregating in huge, water-bound herds much like modern hippos.

Scientists have identified the oldest known ant, belonging to the extinct subfamily Haidomyrmecinae, also known as "hell ants ...

To Ringbauer’s surprise, people from Mediterranean outposts of Phoenician culture—also known as Punic people—shared no ...

The ancient Greek city of Thebes played a central role in Greek history, appearing in many of the legends of Greek mythology.

The city-state aspect of ancient Israel is not, of course, what made Israel distinctive or great. Other city-states (including Athens and Sparta) also shared the same general structure.

Archaeologists excavating the Church of the Holy Sepulchre, the ancient church in Jerusalem situated where Jesus Christ was crucified and buried, recently found evidence of ancient olive trees and ...

Girls, however, who were born from a Spartan and helot would simply be discarded. Slave revolts were uncommon in Ancient Greece, although slave escapes were not. Slaves who escaped did so merely to be ...

There’s not long to go until Dubai’s next Spartan Race Middle East, which will arrive on Saturday April 19. If you haven’t heard yet, this is the challenge you have to sign up for if you’re a real ...

If you’re warming up for the upcoming Spartan Dawn ’til Dusk Race, then we have the perfect workout to get you in gear. Part of the build-up to the official race on Saturday April 19, you can attend a ...

Helots consisted of those Greek citizens who had been conquered ... The term can be traced back to ancient Sparta, whose people were known for being blunt and hailing from Sparta, Laconia. While many ...

After a century-long wait, an excavation has finally revealed the only ancient theatre on Greece's Ionian Islands. Ancient Lefkada’s theatre was first discovered in 1901, but it took until now ...

By extracting ancient DNA from 13,000-year-old and 72,000-year-old fossils and merging it with that of modern gray wolves, scientists have created animals that look and behave like their long ...