Scientists decoded the DNA of an ancient Egyptian man, uncovering surprising links to both North Africa and Mesopotamia in a ...

It's widely considered one of the cradles of civilisation. But a new study has revealed that people living in ancient Egypt ...

Amazons fight Greeks on a terra-cotta lekythos (oil flask) from the fifth century B.C. Amazon battle scenes, known as Amazonomachy, were popular in ancient Greek art. Metropolitan Museum, New York ...

The tale of Salmoneus, the king who dared to imitate Zeus, reveals ancient fears of hubris, madness, and divine punishment.

More than 4,000 years ago, Egypt and Mesopotamia stood as two of the most complex societies on the planet. But the new DNA ...

Researchers from the Francis Crick Institute and Liverpool John Moores University (LJMU) have extracted and sequenced the ...

Bones found at the site of an ancient fish-processing plant were used to genetically identify the species that went into a ...

Last December, at the height of Greece’s olive harvest season, two men drove a stolen white truck to the Glyfada mill in a small town not far from Kalamata. After idling the truck for a ...

Olives were a low-stress crop for millennia, but Greece shows how climate change has made the harvest much less ...

All domestic and agricultural labour was undertaken by the Spartan slave ... One of the most famous stories of women in ancient Greece was a society of warrior women known as the Amazons.

Farming didn t emerge in the Andes due to crisis or scarcity it was a savvy and resilient evolution. Ancient diets remained ...

Uncovering the Past, One Discovery at a Time Farming in Ancient North America: A millenniums-old settlement in Michigan has archaeologists rethinking the rise of agriculture on the continent.