The inhabitants of Carthage were long thought to have derived from Levantine Phoenicians. But an eight-year study suggests ...

In antiquity and now, inconsistency and illogicality lie at the heart of the human effort to imagine what happens when we’re dead ...

Excavations on unpromising mounds in the Iraqi desert revealed Sumer’s earliest city. Surviving relics and a rebuilt temple have given experts more clues about the ancient metropolis of Eridu.

Ingrida Domarkienė, a geneticist at Vilnius University in Lithuania, discusses the exciting developments made possible by ...

The Olympic flame still burns brightly in Ancient Olympia in the Peloponnese, where the modern-day games have their Greek ...

As he began to study them, he discovered the documentary rushes of the Srisailam dam region and several photographs of the famous salvage archaeology project. From the late 1970s to the late 80s, the ...

The first physical evidence of Roman gladiators fighting animals has been found in skeletal remains from England ...

To study this history, population geneticist Harald Ringbauer at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in ...

Ancient housing data shows that wealth inequality often followed land monopolization but was sometimes curbed by inclusive ...

Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. Trader Jonathan Mueller works on the floor of the ...

New research reveals a surprising link between the ancient tectonic history of oceanic plates and their fate as ... A key aspect of this process is subduction, where one tectonic plate slides beneath ...

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