The collection of cuneiform tablets has revealed an extraordinarily diverse written world: magical rituals and spells, king lists, and even what is likely one of the oldest recorded “beer” receipts.…

Archaeologists working near the ancient Greek polis Hippos—called Susita in Aramaic and just inland from the Sea of Galilee—uncovered a small sling projectile inscribed with a message to the enemy.…

During archaeological excavations in Zaragoza (ancient Caesaraugusta) in northeastern Spain, archaeologists made an astonishing discovery. While preparing San Miguel Square and Coso Avenue for urban renovation, archaeologists found a large…

represents the Ebers Papyrus, which was discovered in 1872 in Thebes (Upper Egypt) by the German scholar and writer Georg Ebers. According to a new interpretation of the 3,500-year-old Egyptian…

An international team of researchers has painstakingly reconstructed part of the oldest map of the night sky — a map that had been considered lost. X-ray scanning made the recovery…

Long before people started fixing printing mistakes with white-out, scribes covered accidental errors with a special white pigment. Cambridge researchers announced their discovery after they came across a clever correction…

Archaeologists have uncovered a sophisticated Roman-era water system beneath a hilltop fortress in southeastern Turkey. Zerzevan sits in southeastern Turkey, near the city of Diyarbakir, atop a rocky hill that…

A new biomolecular analysis has revealed that the bronze jars buried beneath a Greek temple in southern Italy over 2,500 years ago contained remnants of the world’s oldest ritual honey.…

A team at the Micronesian Regional Research Center at the University of Guam (Mangilao, USA) says that 4,800 years ago people in parts of Asia removed healthy teeth as a…

During the 10th phase of excavations at the archaeological site of Kiladi in the Indian state of Tamil Nadu, researchers uncovered a terracotta pipeline. This discovery indicates the existence of…

An international team of researchers and experts from Turkey’s Association of Aromatic Culture and Tourism, which promotes ancient scents, have recreated Telinum — the perfume famously worn by Julius Caesar.…

A rare find has emerged from the Giroft region in southeast Iran. An international team says the area’s ancient inhabitants were painting their lips as far back as the second…

A new study by U.S. researchers finds that the disease that destroys memory, speech, and thinking was surprisingly rare in Ancient Greece and Rome. The team argues dementia may be…

Imagine a time machine that could transport you back to the age of dinosaurs. Suddenly, you find yourself in a dense, swampy forest, buzzing with insects among flowers, ferns, and…

Recently, specialists from the research organization Oxford Archaeology surveyed a construction site for a future Aldi supermarket in Olney, Buckinghamshire. Suddenly, they made an astonishing discovery. Beneath a layer of…

What’s surprising is that the city, found on the banks of the Nile, was hidden in a heavily visited tourist and archaeological area. Egyptian archaeologists made the rare discovery not…

These buildings have survived for millennia. And that’s because ingenious ancient Roman engineers knew the recipe for durable concrete. So it’s no surprise that colossal structures like Colosseum and the…

Italian archaeologists have uncovered 24 bronze statues in excellent condition in Tuscany, dating back roughly 2,300 years. In addition to the statues, researchers also discovered 6,000 gold, silver, and bronze…

Few plants were as renowned in antiquity or as popular in the Middle Ages as rosemary. The Romans dedicated it to the goddess Venus and used it to decorate their…

Thousands of years ago, groves of giant sequoias grew in Crimea and the Caucasus. But the last Ice Age wiped them out, leaving only a few survivors in California’s mountains.…

At a permafrost research station in Russia’s Far East, scientists studied a layer of well-preserved peat trapped in the ice. They found fungal spores, algal cells, and the eggs of…

As far back as 3,000 years ago, the ancient Persians knew that doves could find their way home from distant lands. They were the first to establish a pigeon post…

Who would have thought Italy could still be underexplored? Nestled in Europe, it has been visited by tourists from north to south. Yet even in a country like Italy, remarkable…

Was the air on Earth millions of years ago the same as it is today? Only eyewitnesses can answer that question. And believe it or not, those eyewitnesses have been…

More than two thousand years ago, Spartacus led the largest slave uprising in ancient Rome. In his honor, mass sporting competitions in the USSR were called Spartakiads starting in 1928.…

Of the seven wonders of the ancient world, only one survives today—the Great Pyramid of Giza, the most magnificent structure of antiquity. When researchers studied this monument of Egyptian architecture,…

Imagine a communication device from more than a thousand years ago. But this ancient “phone” had nothing in common with the phones we use today. It consisted of two dried…