A digital map of ancient Greece and the known ancient world as traveled by ancient geographers has been created by ...

When Julius Caesar wrote a series of histories about the Gallic Wars around 53 B.C.E., he mentioned a fascinating group of ...

From the death cults of Egypt to the fearsome yet sophisticated society of the Vikings, the ancient world was a surprising and challenging place. Explore the in-depth sections below. The ancient ...

For centuries, historians and linguists have been searching for the cradle of the Indo-Europeans, an ancient people who shaped history and created the world’s largest language family ...

In Britain, archaeologists have found Iranian and Egyptian beads, Scandinavian amber items, Aegean metalwork, Cypriot and ...

For many years, the ancient Greeks and Romans were fooled ... need such jealous guarding with elaborate tall tales. But the world’s demand for spices grew throughout the Roman era and into ...

“I love rock inscriptions, they give you a page of history without excavating ... which are like Excel spreadsheets of the ancient world—all of it has the clarity, power and sophistication ...

Take a journey from the deserts of Arabia to the far corners of the Mediterranean to uncover the world of the Nabataeans, the ...

Standing at 4.8 inches tall and 3.2 inches wide (12.2 by 8.2 centimeters), this artifact is a prized possession of The British Museum, offering a tangible link to the ancient Babylonian ...