In antiquity and now, inconsistency and illogicality lie at the heart of the human effort to imagine what happens when we’re dead ...

Excavations on unpromising mounds in the Iraqi desert revealed Sumer’s earliest city. Surviving relics and a rebuilt temple have given experts more clues about the ancient metropolis of Eridu.

B.C.E., the Trojans learned a fateful lesson: beware of Greeks bearing gifts, particularly when disguised as a massive wooden ...

The Phoenician culture emerged in the Bronze Age city-states of the Levant, developing prominent innovations such as the ...

Using tree-ring data from ancient oaks, the team reconstructed rainfall levels in southern Britain during the years preceding ...

To study this history, population geneticist Harald Ringbauer at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in ...

Remains of what may be the ancient capital city of the Kingdom of Lyncestis have been found in North Macedonia.

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During a visit to Palmyra, reporters found traces of the many forces that had fought over the city and ancient monuments ...

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

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A groundbreaking discovery at an Italian paleontological site has shed new light on the history of dinosaurs in the ...