The ancient Egyptians practiced human sacrifice around 5,000 years ago, a new study finds.

Dig a trench for a canal that will run 107 kilometres (66 miles) across northern France and you expect scraps: a stretch of road, perhaps, or a lone farmstead. At Sermaize, in the Hauts-de-France regi...

An ancient Chinese scholar's account of the Roman Empire.

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Bronze Age Sardinia supplied copper across Europe and the Mediterranean, revealing far-reaching trade networks from Scandinavia to the Levant.

About 40 years ago, researchers found ancient ship carvings on a temple wall in Cyprus, possibly all carved at once at the tail end of the Bronze Age, around the time of the infamous Bronze Age collap...

A small, spotted tiger cat from Bolivia may just be the beginning of a wave of new small cat species.

The famous long-necked dinosaur may even have had a European species.

More wooden than Odysseus' boat.

The city of Rome has revealed for the first time the biggest Roman wall mosaic ever found, and a colorful fresco painted on a 2,000-year-old wall — the culmination of a massive 14-year restoration pro...

The craft is destructive: the barbarians did not come from outside, but were produced by civilization itself. The people whom the poets will turn into heroes simultaneously become the destroyers of their own ...

Manuscript and rare book seller INLIBRIS of Vienna has several papyri, parchments and wooden tablets of great interest for papyrologists and other textual specialists in their catalogue. I’ll keep …

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A 10th-century Viking silver hoard weighing 18.5 kg is Denmark’s largest known, with 700 objects, coins, jewelry and silver bars.

The Great Pyramid of Giza, also known as the Pyramid of Khufu.Jerome Bon/Flickr A journal has retracted a paper by two Italian scientists who claimed to have found hidden structures inside of the o…

Memorabilia from movies like ‘Star Wars,’ and ‘Jurassic Park,’ will be up for grabs at Tippett Studio’s fire sale, starting Friday Aug. 28.

The discovery of charred beams is shedding new light on the destruction of Jerusalem's First Temple in 586 B.C.

Ancient Egyptian artworks reveal animal glues and plant products from sesame and moringa, offering new clues about ancient paint materials.

The actor’s gift for garish eccentricity was indelibly appropriate for the outlandish, cross-dressing mad scientist Frank-N-Furter.

Three and a half millennia ago, the people of the Bronze Age Minoan civilization revered the double-headed ax, which is conventionally known today as a labrys (plural form: labryes), as a religious sy...

As his new film Bitter Christmas is released the legendary Spanish director turns his fire on Donald Trump, Will Smith, Netflix – and himself

Researchers found 120 ancient inscriptions referring to a mysterious goddess known as "the Lady" in a cave in Valencia, Spain.

Anderson has crafted a cinematic world shaped by modern receptions of antiquity, leaving us to wonder: what exactly does "Phoenicia" mean in modern imagination?

Excavations for a sports complex in Vienna uncovered an ancient mass grave filled with Roman soldiers — many of which suffered groin wounds.

This fictional memoir by Octavius’s right-hand man shows us bloodshed, betrayal and hectic jockeying for power

Did Christopher Nolan’s adaptation do the ancient tale justice?