As the cradle of democracy, rational philosophy and theater, Greece laid the foundations of Western thought. It influenced ...

For a long time, archaeologists believed that large buildings required large bosses. The idea was simple: only societies with ...

New research suggests that the holes were the site of an ancient marketplace, and Inca rulers may have used them as a ...

One of history's biggest questions is: "How does an entire civilization disappear?" One can comprehend how an object or even a city is lost, buried, or destroyed, but an entire group or nation of ...

Among the early Maya, the site of Aguada Fénix would have been a place for everyone to gather for trade, socialization, and ...

In my research focused on early farmers of Europe, I have often wondered about a curious pattern through time: Farmers lived in large dense villages, then dispersed for centuries, then later formed ...

Ancient Myths That Archaeologists Want You to Forget: 25 Unbelievable Facts About Ancient Civilizations: The ancient world ...

Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. Two decades in the making, the museum located near ...

Moments of sociopolitical tumult have a way of generating all-encompassing explanatory histories. These chronicles either indulge a sense of decline or applaud our advances. The appetite for such ...

Contributing writer for The Prospect Zane Mills VanWicklen details how the Ancient Mediterranean pavilion in the new Princeton University Art Museum is a “step back in time.” ...