Centuries of bone discoveries from the River Thames now tell a darker story than previously imagined. Recent scientific analysis of...
Ancient Civilizations
Scientists have uncovered evidence that ancient communities in China and Southeast Asia were creating mummies through smoke-drying techniques as early...
Archaeologists in northern Iraq have uncovered a remarkable collection of ancient tombs, recently exposed by the country’s prolonged drought. Located...
Michael Crichton’s Jurassic Park is far more than a tale of resurrected dinosaurs running amok. This sci-fi thriller carries deeper...
Zeus’s rise to ultimate power wasn’t just forged by thunderbolts and battles with Titans—it was an act of divine transcendence,...
Near Indonesia’s shores, in the deep Madura Strait, researchers have found evidence of an ancient civilization. Among the fragments of...
We’re almost at the end of the list of the twelve Olympian gods of ancient Greece. We’ve covered almost all...
The Sahara is the largest desert in the world, a vast arid wilderness stretching across north Africa. For millennia it...
There were twelve “core” gods of the ancient Greek pantheon. In the first of these articles we looked at the...
For centuries, after the Romans left, Britain was ruled by the seven kings of the Heptarchy. This was a time...
The Bronze Age Collapse was, definitively, the end of the Bronze Age. By the time the ancient civilizations had picked...
For the six centuries between the end of Roman occupation and the Battle of Hastings in 1066, Britain was not...