Millions are heading to theaters this summer for Christopher Nolan's "The Odyssey," the mythic action epic starring Matt Damon as the wandering king and Anne Hathaway as his wife Penelope. Long before Damon stepped onto a boat, Homer's original...
New evidence of beekeeping and beeswax use in ancient Greece is emerging from pottery pulled out of a remote cave on the Greek island of Kythera. A recent study found chemical traces of beeswax baked into broken pottery shards...
Archaeologists at an ancient site in Iraq have uncovered rare cuneiform tablets, mass graves, and evidence of a large-scale siege nearly 4,000 years old, giving researchers what they call the clearest record yet of Bronze Age urban warfare in...
Two ancient hilltop sites in the Eurotas Valley of southern Greece are offering new answers about the early encounters between Mycenaean-era communities and the people who would become the Spartans.
A new study published in the Annual of the British...
People living on the North Pontic Steppe around 3000 BC did not choose burial places at random. New research suggests they returned to ancient sacred sites and used them again for their dead, linking newer burials to places that...
Of the most notable objects of the Minoan civilization is the Phaistos disk. This clay disc, unearthed over a century ago in Crete, Greece, may not be a form of ancient writing after all. New research by Constantinos Ragazas of...
Three prehistoric vessels dating back more than 3,000 years are set to go on public display after being unearthed from a quarry in Cambridgeshire. The rare discovery of nine ancient log boats, believed to span the Bronze and Iron...
Archaeologists have uncovered a rare Bronze Age settlement in the far west of China, offering the earliest known evidence of oasis-based life in the Tarim Basin.
The excavation at Aketala reveals how ancient communities survived in one of the most...
