Scientists read ancient DNA from South African hunter gatherers and found a very early human branch that shaped survival ...

Walking through a supermarket today, you'll find the same vegetables everywhere. Carrots, potatoes, broccoli. Tomatoes lined ...

Clues from a digital reconstruction of a lavish ancient home are changing how researchers understand Pompeii’s elite.

Archaeologists have uncovered the submerged ruins of a medieval Silk Road city beneath Lake Issyk-Kul. Located in ...

The 1,800-year-old Ketton mosaic discovered at England's Rutland villa features a rare retelling of the Trojan War myth not ...

That huge genetic mystery is at the heart of Pop Mech ’s new story, “ Scientists Found 6,000-Year-Old Human Remains. No Other ...

Archaeologists have uncovered a rare Roman mosaic depicting a long-lost Trojan War narrative, including the weighing of ...

Section of Panel 1 of the Ketton Mosaic shows Hector, prince of Troy, in his chariot. (©ULAS). A second-century Roman coin from Ilium in Turkey, labelled ‘Hector’, is an earlier example of the same ...

Sometimes, history surprises us. In this episode, we explore an ancient city once lost to time—and only recently brought back ...

Calakmul remained relatively undisturbed until gum harvesters in Mexico led an American botanist to them in 1931. Here’s what ...

Ancient coffin wood turn out to be climate archives, revealing a long-forgotten wet period that helped power the rise of ...

At the crossroads of ancient history and modernity, a project has been completed in Tashkent that is being described by some ...