Peng Zhou/The ConversationIn the sweltering summer of 18 AD, a desperate chant echoed across China’s sun-scorched plains: “Heaven has gone blind!” Thousands of starving farmers, their faces smeared wi ...

In the arid desert of southern Iraq, the remains of one of the world’s oldest cities can be found. This is Eridu, created by the gods as the starting point of civilization in Sumerian mythology.

The death of Pope Francis has sent Catholics all over the world into prolonged mourning. Known for his humility, advocacy for the poor, and efforts to reform the Catholic Church, this pope’s death ...

In the heart of Paris, the Luxor Obelisk rises high above the Place de la Concorde. This astonishing artifact was carved in ...

The Phoenician culture emerged in the Bronze Age city-states of the Levant, developing prominent innovations such as the first alphabet (from which many present-day writing systems derive).

Craig Barker/The ConversationThe 1972 concert film ‘Pink Floyd Live at Pompeii,’ back in cinemas this week, remains one of the most unique concert documentaries ever recorded by a rock band.

Despite assertions to the contrary, science and religion are not always at odds. This has been demonstrated once again, as an ...

A historically significant discovery at a Roman-era cemetery in York, England, has provided the first direct physical proof that gladiators really faced off against wild animals—specifically lions—in ...

A team of prehistoric archaeologists from Tel Aviv University has proposed a new hypothesis to explain a long-standing ...

The Egyptian archaeological mission, a collaboration between the Supreme Council of Antiquities and the Zahi Hawass ...

Newly published research suggests that prehistoric Homo sapiens developed innovative ways to protect themselves from ...

Near a quiet bend of the Danube River in Lower Austria, obscured by floodplains, there is a relic of a long-forgotten ...