A leopard-sized “fearsome” predator that hunted early elephants 30 million years ago has been identified following the ...

Perseverance's drives over the last few weeks have doubled back several times. Why such an unconventional route? Team ...

Some of cultic places during the Bronze and Iron Age on a territory of Transjordan are Ataruz, Deir Alla, Ammon, Mudayna and ...

The centuries-old tradition of wassailing is making a comeback in rural England, with rituals and revelry meant to chase away evil spirits and the winter blues.

In central Canada, a newly uncovered 11,000-year-old settlement is challenging the notion that early Indigenous people were ...

Over 5,300 years ago, ancient herders known as the Yamna people emerged from the steppes of what is now Ukraine, going on to ...

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This unique degree programme offers training in an unparalleled range of ancient languages and their associated history, culture and textual traditions. Students study Hebrew and either Greek or Latin ...

Rajesh Rao, a computer scientist and Indus script scholar, says he receives emails every week from people claiming they’ve figured out the ancient script. According to Rao, most of these ...

The eruption of Italy's Mount Vesuvius in AD 79 was one of the most deadly volcanic events in history, killing up to 16,000 people ... to hold wine and oil in ancient Roman times.

"Some of the rhetoric in the famous poem, The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, is actually from the hysterical state of mind that people had once they got this disease," Professor Mabberley says.

The discovery of ancient artifacts in surprising places ... basing his observations on official photographs of the statue. “People prayed to divinities and made dedications to them in thanks ...