Study reveals how olive oil shaped Greek mythology, daily life, and philosophy for 7,000 years, from ancient Crete to ...

Learn about the history of Karnak, an ancient Egyptian temple complex that was likely positioned on an island as a way to ...

Author Sam Kean writes about how experimental archaeology engages the senses and offers an intimate look into ancient history ...

Danish linguists have achieved a breakthrough that could finally solve one of archaeology's greatest mysteries by deciphering the writing system of ancient Teotihuacan. The discovery reveals that the ...

A groundbreaking archaeological discovery at Karahantepe has shattered expectations about Neolithic symbolic expression, as researchers uncovered the first T-shaped pillar ever found with a distinctly ...

From Plato to Proclus, Athens was regarded as the epicenter of many ancient Greek philosophers' vibrant intellectual lives.

A Roman centurion in sneakers and sunglasses? That is the kind of playful distortion AI image generators sometimes produce when depicting the past. To address this, scholars in classical studies have ...

For decades, small grooves on ancient human teeth were thought to be evidence of deliberate tool use—people cleaning their ...

When we picture the history of money, many imagine barter leading naturally to coins, then paper bills, then cards and ...