William Dalrymple gives us a near-complete idea of how central India was to everything that happened in the ancient world ...

A link exists between 6,000-year-old engravings on cylindrical seals used on clay tablets and cuneiform, the world’s oldest ...

Ancient 4400 B.C. Stone Cylinder Seals Reveal Clues to the World’s First Writing System Researchers at the University of ...

A volcanic eruption destroyed the Roman city of Pompeii in 79 AD, but an avalanche of tourists has caused officials to ...

Ancient Greek laws against tyrants permitted the killing of authoritarians who attacked democracy. Still, popular sovereignty ...

William Dalrymple has spent decades writing about history, but he’s discovered that an even bigger audience wants to hear him ...

Homer's Ancient Greek Poem Iliad has inspired a small village in Turkey to install busts of the Trojan war heroes on their ...

Samarkand, Uzbekistan - Recen Samarkand, an ancient city in Uzbekistan with a history spanning thousands of years, is ...

Ancient DNA sequenced from bone fragments preserved within ... with its population having a surprisingly diverse heritage.

Before Mesopotamian people invented writing, they used cylinder seals to press patterns into wet clay – and some of the ...

New DNA evidence suggests things were not as they seem — and these prevailing interpretations come from looking at the ...

At the same time, classical architecture was also a main source of inspiration for the utopian city’s design, given its ...