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

Museums have long been a favourite pastime, whether it is a day out with the family, immersing yourself in a long-held interest or broadening your knowledge of the past. These capitals of knowledge ...

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 ...

Archaeologists excavating a section of the well-known Konya's Karahöyük site have discovered three artifacts from different time periods, which may recontextualize the timeline of Anatolia’s Bronze ...

Archaeologists uncovered a 4,500-year-old gold artifact and jade stone in Troy, reshaping the timeline and trade history of the ancient city.

When we picture the history of money, many imagine barter leading naturally to coins, then paper bills, then cards and digital balances. But new research led by University at Albany Anthropology ...

Many of the roads we use today have some of the ancient origins, whether a path that has been tread earlier, or a pathway used by traders. Some of the earliest roads were built so people, trade, ...

History has seen many waves of Egyptomania but, until the 19th century, scholars remained baffled by the many repeated symbols and motifs wrapped around every new find, from majestic monuments to ...

I'm a guy who is now a junior in high school, and most of my classes are fine, but I literally roll my eyes to myself every day in our history class! Why do we need to know so much about ancient ...

An ancient mural of Jesus Christ healing the sick has been uncovered in the ruins of an Egyptian settlement from 1,600 years ago. An Egyptian archaeological team discovered the remains of the city in ...

Scientists have confirmed that Yersinia pestis, the bacterium behind later plagues like the Black Death, caused the Justinian Plague - the world’s first recorded pandemic 1,500 years ago. In an ...

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