The past has never been more visible. While ancient ruins crumble under the weight of time, weather, and human activity, a ...

Academics studying public toilets, grief in ancient Greece and gender cohesion in universities have won a slice of $376m in ­taxpayer funding for priority ­research.

More than six decades later, what has emerged is a military-narrational complex, in which war presents too good a story not to tell, over and over again. States, and now nonstate actors, have been ...

From the Greeks and the Romans to the Ottoman empire, the history of Sardis, Turkey, is one of persistent turnover. But its ...

Across Egypt and beyond stone surfaces reveal machining marks so precise they raise questions about what tools ancient ...

Thousands of years and conspiracies have all led to this: the Great Pyramid of Giza may have been built using the basic ...

In an excerpt from his new book Dinner with King Tut, Sam Kean explores a weird and wild '90s experiment to replicate ancient ...