The social status and evolving rights of children in ancient Rome, from the absolute power of a father to early legal protections and reforms.

The urbanization of ancient Athens, starting as a region of scattered villages and growing into an influential city, is ...

When archaeologists unearthed small cat bones in China dating back some 5,400 years, they figured cats had been hanging out ...

Making fire on demand was a milestone in the lives of our early ancestors. But the question of when that skill first arose ...

A hidden marvel beneath the earth's surface has emerged near Stonehenge, revealing a story of ancient ingenuity that has left ...

A new radiocarbon study of museum artefacts linked to King Ahmose suggests Egypt’s New Kingdom began later than long believed ...

Divers have discovered a long-submerged wall some 7,000 years old under the sea off western France, scientists said Thursday.

Researchers have dated vertebrae from a massive prehistoric shark thought to have ruled the waves off northern Australia back ...

When winter sets in, and daylight is gone well before dinner, it’s hard not to notice how long the nights stretch on. For me, ...

A group of scientists are studying the Cyclades, an island group in Greece's Aegean Sea, looking for signs of early human ...

A Study Gallery of India and the Ancient World, trains its lens to the duration between the Harappan civilisation — which ...

When an ancient ship was unearthed in Scandinavia over 100 years ago, archaeologists started to uncover bits and pieces of ...