Eighteen thousand years after it slumped over dead in a Southeast Asian cave, what is believed to be a tiny human has become the center of a bitter tug of war between the scholars responsible for its ...

A two-thousand-year-old cup, often referred to as the ‘Jesus Cup’, was retrieved from the sea and may be the earliest known ...

In 1998, an ancient copy of a 174-page text by the third century mathematician Archimedes sold for $2 million at Christie?s auction house to an anonymous buyer following a court challenge over ...

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An aerial view of the Longgupo site in Wushan, Southwest China's Chongqing Municipality Photo: VCG. Wearing a dim headlamp, ...

In recent decades, classical scholarship has shown that contrary to the gleaming white aspect they bear today, Greco-Roman statues and temples were flamboyantly painted. Cecilie Brøns, a researcher at ...

Scholars at Tel Aviv University and Ariel University, in Israel, have used artificial intelligence to translate fragments of ancient cuneiform texts on stone tablets into English with what they say is ...

It’s easy to learn about the feats of the ancient Greeks and Romans. Their achievements have been the focus of much scholarship made accessible in classrooms, television and books. For us, they’ve ...

The ancient Egyptians didn't want tomb robbers to pilfer treasures in the pyramids, so how did they stop thieves?

Prof. Emeritus Noel M. Swerdlow, a distinguished historian of science and the world’s foremost expert on Ptolemy and Copernicus, died July 24. He was 79. Swerdlow was famous for his approach to ...

Professor Michael Scott wants to dispense with one of the greatest misnomers about the study of the ancient world – that it is a subject which is no longer relevant. “There is a misconception that ...