When Marco Rubio stood before the Acropolis in Athens on Oct. 7 and delivered a speech in defense of Western civilization, his most avid listeners were two dozen American graduate students steeped in ...

Around 1200 BCE, some of the most powerful civilizations in the eastern Mediterranean began to experience extraordinary upheaval. Cities were destroyed, trade networks faltered, and kingdoms that had ...

A new cache of cuneiform tablets reveals the everyday lives of people in the Hittite Empire—from religious rituals to a ...

From the Rosetta Stone and the Antikythera Mechanism to ancient letters and mathematical manuscripts, discover 15 historic ...

Researchers dated unmelted ore grains and linked Shang dynasty tin to northeast China. Some of it likely traveled over 930 ...

A Lost Civilization or a Successor Civilization?In July 2026, research published in the scientific journal Nature suggested the possibility that an ancient civilization of a scale exceeding previous a ...

When a seven-eared stem emerged from the ground, it seemed like a miracle. What Claudio Grossi had unearthed was an ancient ...

On Oct. 7, against the stunning backdrop of the Acropolis, Secretary of State Marco Rubio delivered a rousing speech that illuminated Western civilization’s and America’s roots in classical Greece.

Earth's history, super-ancient civilizations, Platonic solids, and the end of silicon-based life. A science fiction ...

For thousands of years, ancient civilizations constructed extraordinary underground tunnel systems for defense, water ...

Mykonos is famous for its beach clubs, expensive hotels and parties that last until sunrise. Every summer, visitors from ...

Scientists discover silk traces on 3,000-year-old bronze masks at Sanxingdui, revealing new details about ancient China's ...