On Sept. 27, 1822, French philologist Jean-François Champollion announced that he had deciphered ancient Egyptian ...

On the northwestern coast of modern-day Turkey, the city at the heart of Homer’s Iliad and the Trojan War was somewhere between myth and history until ruins were discovered in Hisarlık in the late ...

Researchers used sophisticated scanning and digital reconstruction techniques to determine the original shape of the skull, ...

Archaeologists are uncovering America’s hidden history, from ancient artifacts to Civil War damage in Tennessee.

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 ...

Malaka, an ancient Phoenician city in today's Spain, thrived as a Mediterranean hub enriched by Greek trade, art, and cultural influence.

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

Recently, more and more foreign authors have been turning to ancient Greece to get inspiration for their novels.

New research shows that California's Sierra Nevada glaciers, which will vanish in decades, have remained intact for at least ...

Thousands of years before Jimmy Kimmel and Stephen Colbert got under President Trump's skin, ancient Greek and Roman poets ...

A few dozen enthusiasts of ancient hunting tools participated in the Northeast Open Atlatl Championship in Addison, Vermont.