A remarkable Roman mosaic found in Rutland turns out to tell a forgotten version of the Trojan War. Rather than Homer’s famous epic, it reflects a lost Greek tragedy by Aeschylus, featuring vivid ...

Using advanced machine learning and climate models, researchers have shown that the ancestors of crops like wheat, barley, and rye probably were much less widespread in the Middle East 12,000 years ...

Until now, historians knew of Tamil traders reaching Egyptian ports such as Berenike along the Red Sea. However, these newly ...

Researchers at the University of Huddersfield have used ancient DNA to reveal that hunter-gatherers in one part of Europe survived for thousands of years longer than anywhere else on the continent—and ...

The Chincha Kingdom was transporting seabird excrement from islands to valleys as early as the 13th century, and this powerful fertiliser may have been key to its economic success ...

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan says Turkey and Greece can solve their Aegean and eastern Mediterranean disputes ...

Meuse river delta resisted population shifts that transformed most of Europe — until they helped catalyse the expansion of ‘Bell Beaker’ culture.

Carthage and Rome had amicable relations. But as their respective spheres of influence grew, Mediterranean geopolitics drew them into war.

The location of the discovery implies that the amulet traveled over a whopping 1,000 miles, likely via trade.

The city of Naucratis was the earliest ancient Greek colony in Egypt that served as the connecting and trading post between ...

Two thousand years ago, Alexandria on the Tigris was a flourishing trade centre and regional capital near the Persian Gulf. Today, only its extended rampart is visible in the southern Iraqi landscape.