Tombs scattered across China, built between the 4,000-year old Xia Dynasty and the modern era, reflect the political and ...

Reincarnation and afterlife was a tradition among the ancient Greeks. Writers expressed the view that the souls of the dead ...

Some 3,500 years ago, hunter-gatherers began building massive earthwork mounds along the Mississippi River at Poverty Point, ...

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Ghosts stories appear in several surviving texts from ancient Rome. What do they reveal about the people who told them?

Ancient Greek afterlife beliefs reveal a shift from fear of death to hope through secret rituals, divine guidance, and ...

Scientists dug into paleofeces for a new study, learning some very intimate details about how long-ago people lived.

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The new director of Rome’s Colosseum, has rejected reports that the ancient site will host electronic dance music parties.

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Australia’s First Peoples may or may not have hunted the continent’s megafauna to extinction, but they definitely collected ...