There are very few remains of ancient ships, except in one unusual place: the Black Sea has a unique environment that ...

Ancient DNA extracted from a sediment core from a high-altitude Pyrenean lake in Spain reveals that fish may have been added to the lake by humans as early as the 7th century CE. The findings ...

Ancient India has been a cradle of innovation, offering groundbreaking contributions to science, mathematics, medicine, and ...

Hellanicus of Lesbos, born c. 480 BC in Greece, was one of the earliest, most prolific Greek logographers of the 5th century ...

Greece unveiled measures aimed at preserving and safeguarding the Sanctuary of Demeter and Kore in Abdera (Avdira in Greek), ...

Separating the best examples of classical Sanskrit drama in the Ramayana and the Mahabharata, the retelling of the nine plays ...

Selena Wisnom walks the shelves of King Ashurbanipal’s library, revealing what the books tell us about the ideas circulating in 7th-century BC Mesopotamia ...

A collection of artefacts collected 2,500 years ago in modern-day Iraq reveal the forgotten world of Mesopotamia, home to ...

The Potala Palace Management Office created an experimental restoration team for palm-leaf manuscripts in 2019, and its main ...

The macabre world of ancient Egyptian ritual sacrifice may have contributed to the domestication of cats, new research ...

More than a century after its initial discovery, the only known amphitheater on the Ionian Islands is finally seeing the light of day. Perched on a hillside on Lefkada, an island off the west ...