Williams/University of CambridgeAfter baffling scholars for over a century, Cambridge researchers have reinterpreted the long-lost Song of Wade, revealing it to be a chivalric romance ...

Bulgarian archaeologists have made what could be one of the most spectacular discoveries in the country's recent archaeological history - the long-sought palace and tomb of a powerful Thracian king be ...

A remarkable discovery in Spain's Catalan Pyrenees has provided unprecedented forensic evidence of prehistoric violence.

Could you ever be truly alone in the woods of ancient Greece or Rome? According to myth, the ancient world was filled with wild animals, terrifying monsters, and mischievous deities. Among them were ...

By John Brhel/ Binghamton UniversityNew research transforms our understanding of the Dark Ages…It turns out the Dark Ages weren’t all that dark!

Turkish archaeologists have uncovered compelling evidence of ancient warfare at the legendary city of Troy, discovering thousands of 3,500-year-old sling stones and weapons that may finally prove Home ...

On 11 July 1613, a sixteen-year-old youth was crowned Grand Prince, Tsar and Sovereign Autocrat of All Russia in the Dormition Cathedral of the Moscow Kremlin.

Archaeologists in western Poland have uncovered two massive prehistoric structures dubbed the "Polish pyramids," offering an extraordinary glimpse into Europe's earliest agricultural societies.

Alexandra Makin/The ConversationThe Bayeux tapestry is set to return to the UK for the first time in almost 1,000 years.

"We now know that for the vast majority of human history, we've had a history of contact between modern humans and Neanderthals," said Akey. The hominins who are our most direct ancestors split from ...

Located near the village of Shiyan Beicun in Zhejiang province, China, lie the Longyou Caves - an extensive, magnificent and rare ancient underground world considered in China to be “the ninth wonder ...

The fall of Babylon is a historical event that occurred in 539 BC. This event saw the conquest of Babylon by the Achaemenid Empire under Cyrus the Great and marked the end of the Neo-Babylonian Empire ...