In these books, an emperor, an officer and an orphan look for anything that resembles a clear victory in the fog of war.

A newly confirmed mass grave in ancient Jordan offers chilling insight into one of history’s first pandemics. Hundreds of ...

Award-winning filmmakers Haya Fatima Iqbal and Nadir Siddiqui take readers inside the epic task of chronicling Mohenjo ...

The work demonstrates the power of ancient DNA to illuminate human biology and medicine in addition to history. A massive ...

Investigating questions of kinship, archaeologists discovered that treating non-blood relatives as family goes back to the ...

By analyzing ancient and modern DNA, scientists are uncovering the genetic origins of the Greek people, shaped over millennia ...

When you think about our origin story, and of our planet -- among all of the planets in the cosmos -- there is a deep ...

Excavation of the ancient city of Juliopolis has uncovered evidence that it was a significant power-center for centuries. Located in modern-day Turkey, the city is now mostly submerged beneath a dam ...

Ancient Roman board game stumped experts for decades – until AI played A slab of limestone excavated in 1984 from the ancient Coriovallum settlement in the Netherlands presented a puzzle for ...

Genetic material preserved in ancient grape seeds reveals when, and how, humans meddled with wine grapes. By Rebecca Dzombak Humans have been drinking wine for thousands of years. Paintings from ...

Think you’ll forget it? Write it down. Apparently, this approach for remembering grocery lists, house chores, deliveries, and the like was also a huge part of life for ancient Egyptians living over ...