Shi’s Star Catalog has been notoriously difficult to date, but new research suggests astronomers drafted it centuries before ...

When one thinks of white, marble art and clear, cerulean waters of Tinos island, Greece comes to mind. The two are synonymous ...

Two studies of ancient felines find that cats were likely domesticated in Egypt or other regions in North Africa — and moved ...

The gold ring with a red garnet is going to be a big help in understanding the largely unknown Hellenistic period in ...

Thucydides records that Plague struck Athens in 426 BC, the second year of the Peloponnesian War. Within his writings, we see ...

Oysters and escargot are recognised as luxury foods around the world – but they were once valued by the lower classes as ...

A stunning 2,300-year-old gold ring unearthed in Jerusalem uncovers a hidden ritual from an ancient world on the brink of ...

The ancient Greek city-state of Syracuse on the eastern coast of Sicily started as a colony and became a Greek metropolis.

Archaeologists are examining the burial site, grave by grave, to determine China's ancient global relations. Archaeologists ...

Archaeologists uncover a 2,300-year-old gold ring with a red gemstone in Jerusalem’s City of David, linked to Hellenistic ...

Despite initial impressions, ancient Greek temples were not built to impress 21st-century tourists; they were made to house ...

Ancient genomes reveal that a bacterial fever jumped from human-borne ticks to lice around the time wool textiles became ...