A mosaic with twelve-sided geometric panels has surfaced at the ancient state agora of Smyrna, now buried beneath central Izmir, raising the possibility that public life at the site continued well ...

A new 'Almost History' podcast from "All About History" discusses an alternative reality ...

An international team of cave explorers has shown that cave walls and the prehistoric rock art that adorns them can preserve human DNA for thousands of years.

This Silicon Valley-backed venture is unraveling the mangled remains of scrolls ruined by the 79 C.E. eruption of Vesuvius that destroyed Herculaneum and Pompeii ...

Kissing is neither universal nor timeless. Its history offers surprising insights into intimacy, culture, and human ...

DNA from ancient humans has been found on a prehistoric cave painting and on cave walls, demonstrating the potential to one ...

Roman history began in 753 B.C.E., when Romulus killed his twin brother and founded the city that would eventually rule the Mediterranean. That power would be built on slavery. No modern depiction of ...

Researchers have recovered texts previously lost to history, revealing philosophical takes on ethics, the arts, human ...

After nearly seven decades of excavation, the legendary ancient city of Sardis has become a UNESCO World Heritage Site, ...

In this installment of NPR's Word of the Week, we go to camp: from 16th-century military lodgings to the wilderness ...

Scrolls from the Roman library of Herculaneum that were carbonised by a volcanic eruption have been read in their entirety ...

Sicilian populations have been genetically diverse for many centuries, and they have remained that way even through major ...