A newly spotlighted artifact from ancient Mesopotamia is offering a rare window into how one of the world’s earliest ...

Divers have spent decades exploring Greece's ancient Antikythera wreck. The latest expedition found relics and retrieved ...

Ancient builders had a profound understanding of human responses to environmental conditions and physical needs. Initially, families and tribes lived together in skin-covered huts and bone structures.

Childhood education in ancient Greece was highly dependent on one’s gender. Preparing for life in the public sphere, wealthy boys during the classical period went to schools where they faced ...

Ancient Greece Through the Lens of the Camera Obscura Vera Lutter evaded wildfires and sacrificed meals and sleep to produce beguiling photographs with an archaic form of image-making.

Ancient Greek doctors included Hippocrates, the “father of medicine.” How did the Greeks practice medicine, and how does this relate to health in our times? Find out more.

Ancient Greece’s Biggest Port Is Older Than We Thought Archaeological discoveries add 500 years to the history of Corinth’s main harbor J. Besl, Hakai March 21, 2024 Get our newsletter!

Not everyone in ancient Greece and Rome was into magic The descriptions above might make you think that everyone in the ancient world was into binding magic.

Find out who the ancient Greeks were - when they lived, how they were ruled and how they spent their time with this year 5/6 primary history guide from BBC Bitesize.

A newly spotlighted artifact from ancient Mesopotamia is offering a rare window into how one of the world’s earliest civilizations imagined the Earth. Known as the Imago Mundi, this Babylonian ...