Following over two decades of research, scientists at the Australian National Maritime Museum have asserted in no uncertain terms that they've located one of the most famous ships of maritime history ...

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’ ...

Conor Trainor for The ConversationBefore artificial sweeteners, people satisfied their cravings for sweetness with natural ...

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.

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

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, ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

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