Work by the Italian artist is seen by millions of people around the world each year in places such as the Vatican and the ...

History | January 2022. At the Iraqi Site of Assur, Ancient History Stands at Risk of Destruction. In its time, the Assyrian capital faced waves of invasions and abandonment.

An ancient ambush of wild horses at a German archaeological site called Schöningen around 300,000 years ago suggests that communal hunting, along with complex ...

A Denisovan skull has been identified for the first time. The find was based on proteins and calcified dental plaque ...

history magazine These 5 ancient cities once ruled North America—what happened to them? As they dug further, they hit a stratum dating to the Uruk period (4500–3200 B.C.).

Japanese researchers turned to “experimental archaeology” to study how ancient humans navigated powerful ocean currents and migrated offshore.

Art and literature hint at past people’s psyches. Now computers can identify patterns in those cognitive fossils, but human expertise remains crucial.

Overlooked, familiar, homely… These are the words traditionally associated with the apron, a detachable, workaday garment ...

Making of an empire. As a bold young man, Chandragupta Maurya, the future king of the Mauryan Empire, allegedly offered some brash advice to Alexander the Great, who had crossed the Indus River ...

Dating back to the Neolithic era, the so-called Venus of Kolobrzeg is the first artifact of its kind unearthed in the ...

The setting for this myth is ancient Mesopotamia, a civilisation whose name literally means “the land between the rivers”. These rivers – the Tigris and Euphrates – run through modern-day Iraq and ...

First published in 1986, the book became something of a secret instruction manual to the city—a shadow history, with photocopies and PDFs traded like samizdat before its recent return to shelves. 8.