Travel back 20,000 years into the last Ice Age, to a time when the upper reaches of the Blue Mountains were treeless and the ridgelines and mountain peaks laden in snow and ice.At an elevation of 1,07 ...

Archaeologists excavating the ancient Roman fort of Magna, near Hadrian's Wall in Northumberland, England, have uncovered a remarkable personal artifact: a nearly complete Roman leather shoe measuring ...

“Sing, O muse, of the rage of Achilles, son of Peleus, that brought countless ills upon the Achaeans” (Iliad, Robert Fagles’ ...

About 6,200 years ago, in a village on the northern rim of the Persian Gulf, a young woman died after being struck on the head. She was probably younger than 20.

On the enamel of fossilized teeth lying in African soil for millions of years, scientists have discovered something small but possibly earth-shaking: tiny, uniform pits grouped in patterns too uniform ...

For decades it was thought that the family system of the ancient Egyptians was very similar to our own. However, Ph.D. candidate Steffie van Gompel explains that the reality is somewhat different.

AD 312, the fate of the future of the Roman world was decided near the Pons Milvius, the Milvian Bridge (the modern Ponte ...

In a rare and chilling discovery, archaeologists have uncovered powerful new evidence of execution and public punishment from ...

At Ancient Origins, we believe that one of the most important fields of knowledge we can pursue as human beings is our beginnings. And while some people may seem content with the story as it stands, ...

Conor Trainor for The ConversationBefore artificial sweeteners, people satisfied their cravings for sweetness with natural products, including honey or dried fruit.

Before China's Neolithic Fujia community was arranging its deceased, it already possessed something unusual: a social structure organized not around fathers, but around mothers.Chinese researchers hav ...

On the dark, chilly bottom of the sea off the coast of Ramatuelle, France, early in March 2025, a French Navy drone swept the silt with its sonar beam — a form, large and out of context, 2.5 kms (1.59 ...