Since Athens is considered the birthplace of democracy, the ancient Greek statesman Pericles must be considered its father.

BC, dawned heavy with the anticipation of battle. On the plains of Mantinea, the fate of the Greek world hung in the balance.

Forty years after the first effort to extract mummy DNA, researchers have finally generated a full genome sequence from an ...

More than 4,000 years ago, Egypt and Mesopotamia stood as two of the most complex societies on the planet. But the new DNA ...

Scientists have for the first time sequenced the most complete and oldest ancient Egyptian genome ever found—unlocking new ...

A team of ancient literature experts have deciphered a Mesopotamain text that was missing for over 1,000 years. Etched on ...

The genome of a man who lived in Egypt over 4500 years ago offers a new window on the ancient society and hints at ...

In a first, researchers have sequenced the complete genome of a man from ancient Egypt, and the results reveal that he had ...

Bones found at the site of an ancient fish-processing plant were used to genetically identify the species that went into a fish sauce, often known as garum, eaten throughout the Roman Empire ...

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Sure, you’d expect the best Roman games to feature a great deal of military might, after all war is what forged the Imperium ...

French nationals embarking a military A400M plane as they are evacuated from the Tel Aviv's Ben Gurion airport to Cyprus, ...