Ancient Roman ideas of privacy differed radically from our own, and their communal toilets reveal a mindset almost impossible ...

High in the Ecuadorian Andes, where dense clouds settle over terraced fields and villages stitched into the mountainsides, a ...

The discovery of the settlements over the years has led to a new understanding of the Asia Minor and Anatolia regions.

Researchers uncovered rare azurite traces on a Final Paleolithic artifact, overturning assumptions that early Europeans used ...

By Karen TaylorThe famed silk roads, which connected ancient China to the rest of the world, were not so named until many years later, by German geographer Richthofen in the 1800s who reflected on the ...

Professor Kenichi Yano of Ritsumeikan University emphasized the discovery's unique significance: ...

On Monday 8 December, archaeologists discovered the wreck of a 2,000-year-old ancient Egyptian pleasure boat off the coast of ...

The chance rediscovery of the ancient Chinese Sanxingdui civilization is legendary in and of itself. In 1929, an unsuspecting peasant in Sichuan province stumbled upon a cache of jade relics while ...

A Seattle meme artist known as Sunday Nobody has sunk a three-metre bronze mash-up of Handsome Squidward and the ancient ...

Step into the birthplace of Western civilization with this immersive virtual tour of the Acropolis of Athens. Explore its ...

High in the mountains of the Ecuadorian Andes, a group of young Otavalo Indigenous people is using anime to inspire pride in their ancient culture and language, especially among Otavalo children. They ...

Scientists excavating the ruins of Pompeii have discovered a construction site left frozen in time by the eruption of Italy's ...