For decades it was thought that the family system of the ancient Egyptians was very similar to our own. However, Ph.D. candidate Steffie van Gompel explains that the reality is somewhat different.

On the enamel of fossilized teeth lying in African soil for millions of years, scientists have discovered something small but possibly earth-shaking: tiny, uniform pits grouped in patterns too uniform ...

On the dark, chilly bottom of the sea off the coast of Ramatuelle, France, early in March 2025, a French Navy drone swept the silt with its sonar beam — a form, large and out of context, 2.5 kms (1.59 ...

AD 312, the fate of the future of the Roman world was decided near the Pons Milvius, the Milvian Bridge (the modern Ponte ...

Darius von Guttner Sporzynski for The ConversationFor two centuries, scholars have sparred over the roots of the Piasts, Poland’s first documented royal house, who reigned from the 10th to the 14th ce ...

In a rare and chilling discovery, archaeologists have uncovered powerful new evidence of execution and public punishment from ...

At some point between stone crashing on stone and the murmur of words by a Paleolithic fire, something shifted.In a brand new study, a multidisciplinary group of researchers has mapped the deep prehis ...

Using state-of-the-art computer modeling and climate reconstructions, a team of anthropologists has unveiled the possible migratory highways used by Neanderthals to journey thousands of kilometers fro ...

About 6,200 years ago, in a village on the northern rim of the Persian Gulf, a young woman died after being struck on the head. She was probably younger than 20.

“Sing, O muse, of the rage of Achilles, son of Peleus, that brought countless ills upon the Achaeans” (Iliad, Robert Fagles’ translation). So, Agamemnon snatches Briseis, the desirable war trophy of ...

Thoth. (Brooklyn Museum)Another legend suggests that it was the third son of Adam and Eve, Seth, who originally wrote it.Others believed that the tablet was once held within the Ark of the ...

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