Traces of color preserved in the stone are changing how historians understand what was lost when Alexander burned Persepolis.

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 ...

Carthage began as a Phoenician trading outpost and grew into a Mediterranean empire that challenged Rome itself. This chapter follows Phoenician expansion, navigation, and colonization, before tracing ...

New research sheds light on one of archaeology’s longest-running debates: how Stonehenge’s massive bluestones reached their ...

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 ...

Does the eruption of Santorini appear in Greek mythology? This depends largely on which group can truly be identified as the ...