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

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

The transformation of the Roman Empire into what modern historians call Byzantium was not a single event but a gradual ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

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, ...

Centuries of excavations have unearthed a few theories about what really brought down one of the oldest cities in the ancient world. Alamy Chronicle's illustration of "Joshua at Jericho." Jericho's ...