Kimon, son of the general Miltiades, who led the Athenians at the Battle of Marathon, was the fear and terror of the Persians ...

The showdown between the ancient Greek city states and the Achaemenid Empire of Persia was one of the pivotal moments of ...

It was the summer of 2020, and researcher Walter Crist was wandering around the exhibits inside a Dutch museum dedicated to the presence of the ancient Roman empire in the Netherlands. As a scientist ...

Known as The Regent, Spartan general Pausanias lived a life that encapsulated the harsh realities of the Ancient Greek city-state. A nephew of the great Leonidas, he ended up being killed by his own ...

Malta is one of the Mediterranean’s most remote islands. The nearest land is Sicily, about 85 kilometres north. Today, with ferries and planes, getting there is light work, but in the distant past, ...

The oldest known wooden tools have been found in an opencast mine in Greece. They are 430,000 years old and were made by an unidentified species of ancient human – perhaps the ancestors of ...

This article originally appeared in The Conversation. If you were to visit a bookshop in the ancient world, what would it be like? You don’t just have to imagine it. The ancient Roman writer Aulus ...

Jemima McPhee receives funding from an Australian Government Research Training Program (RTP) Scholarship. Ancient scientists can be easy to dismiss. Greek philosopher Thales of Miletus, often ...

Long before whales and sharks, enormous marine reptiles dominated the oceans with unmatched power. Scientists have reconstructed a 130-million-year-old marine ecosystem from Colombia and found ...

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An Italian archaeological mission has discovered the remains of a sun temple belonging to an ancient Egyptian king near Cairo, the Egyptian antiquities ministry said. The temple of King Nyuserre is ...

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