Far-Flung Postcards is a weekly series in which NPR's international team shares moments from their lives and work around the ...

Treponema pallidum, a microorganism that can cause a deadly sexually transmitted disease in humans, may have a far more ancient lineage than scientists once thought ...

Ancient Greek Tyrant Agathocles of Syracuse led a daring invasion of Africa, shaping Sicily’s history and influencing ...

The Crusades are often painted with a broad and simplistic brush—but how accurate are the popular narratives? In this video, we explore and challenge a few persistent myths surrounding the Crusades, ...

Long before Romans or Greeks, ancient seafarers from the Near East founded ports across Spain and the wider Mediterranean. With their own records lost and history written by rivals, this episode ...

Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story: The Dmanisi Hominid Archaeological Site is home to the oldest hominid fossils in Europe, and many studies have tried to sort through the fossils to ...

New archaeological evidence is helping rewrite old myths about disabled people in the ancient world. Early Roman Empire depiction of a Freedman and Freedwoman, 30-15 BCE. British Museum, London, UK.

Chogha Zanbil was first spotted from a surveillance airplane in 1935. The excavated complex was discovered to be one of the few ziggurats built outside Mesopotamia. The ruins of the ancient Elamite ...

In search of a prehistoric state -- Research setting -- The archaeology of complex societies and ancient states -- Forms of complexity in Southeast Asia -- War in the world, war in Southeast Asia -- ...