The find came from the Pyatnitsky excavation, an urban settlement that developed in the eleventh century, according to the original NovSU announcement. The front shows a warrior with spear and shield, ...

Scholars in Shaanxi believe that a royal tomb adjacent to the Xi’an Xianyang International Airport may be the enduring resting place of Empress Dowager Huayang, the woman who influenced the succession ...

More evidence emerges that Tutankhamun's tomb might stretch beyond the painted walls that mark its end. New research has ...

A Norman fortress long thought to have vanished has been found hiding inside University College Dublin’s Roebuck Castle. New ...

The argument can be traced back to the Roman author Vitruvius, who talked about Greek architecture several centuries after ...

Excavation work at Tell el-Abqain in Egypt’s Beheira Governorate has revealed the residential heart of a New Kingdom frontier fortress. In addition to planned streets and rooms built with mud bricks, ...

Now, if you open a Protestant Bible to Genesis 6, humanity multiplies and the “Sons of God” take wives. The LORD then caps ...

The Norse mythology we think you know may never have existed as a single story. It survives today as a confident, cinematic arc, but no Viking Age author left behind the volume that tells it from ...

More than 5,000 years ago, a royal woman called Meretneith (also written as Merneith), lived in ancient Egypt. She was ...

A recent study of the Roman road system has disproved two common views about the infrastructure of ancient Rome: that all ...

The hardest decisions usually come when we do not have all the facts. We cannot know if or when we will get a second chance at an opportunity. We do not know if having a difficult conversation with ...

A diagram showing the foot-strike posture of a chimpanzee on all fours, an early human ancestor and a modern human. The ...