Archaeological excavations at Konya's Karahöyük have yielded three remarkable discoveries that are rewriting our understanding of Bronze Age life in central Anatolia.

Revolutionary sediment core analysis from the Roman town of Aldborough in Yorkshire has shattered long-held beliefs about Britain's post-Roman economic collapse, revealing that metal production not on ...

Deep within the hieroglyphic texts of ancient Egypt lies a medical mystery that could rewrite our understanding of disease in the ancient world.

Archaeological teams in southeastern Austria have made an extraordinary discovery that pushes back our understanding of European monumental architecture by thousands of years.Imagine standing in a vas ...

A remarkable ceramic vessel discovered beneath the waters off Alexandria, Egypt, may represent the earliest known reference to Jesus Christ outside of Christian scripture.

Imagine organizing a festival so massive that people would drive livestock hundreds of miles to attend - without roads, GPS, or even the wheel.

Adeline Morez Jacobs/The ConversationA group of scientists has sequenced the genome of a man who was buried in Egypt around 4,500 years ago.

During routine conservation work at the ancient Palazzone Necropolis in Perugia, Italy, archaeologists have uncovered a remarkable travertine urn that challenges conventional understanding of Etruscan ...

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Explorers have stumbled upon what appears to be a massive stone doorway carved into the remote Dzungarian Alatau mountains of Kazakhstan, igniting widespread speculation about its origins.

Aboriginal Australian culture has long been recognized as humanity's oldest continuous living culture, with scientific literature estimating their arrival on the continent at 65,000 years ago.

Konstantine Panegyres/The ConversationThe ancient Greek orator Dio Chrysostom (1st-2nd century CE) said in his speech To the People of Alexandria that there were two kinds of democracy: one good and o ...