According to traditional Chinese history, he was possibly a contemporary of Confucius and may have been a wise sage who wrote a brief but valuable work known as Daodejing (or the Classic of the Way ...

The 'rubbish' left behind at a deserted medieval village in an isolated area of Yorkshire could hold clues about how societies achieve long-term 'green' prosperity, according to new research. The ...

Archaeologists in Poland have made a remarkable discovery while examining a 2,000-year-old Egyptian mummy. During the first-ever comprehensive scientific investigation of the ancient remains, ...

A new study by Columbia University historian John Ma has uncovered evidence of a hidden army operating within the Roman Empire during the first century AD. Published in the Journal of Roman Studies, ...

Edward the Confessor, who reigned from 1042 to 1066, was the last king of England from the House of Wessex before the Norman Conquest. His reign is often viewed as a transitional period, bridging the ...

The Monte Verde archaeological site in southern Chile has long been the crown jewel of evidence for the early peopling of the Americas, widely accepted as proof that humans arrived long before the ...

A new computational study suggests the Great Pyramid of Giza was built using a sophisticated "Integrated Edge-Ramp" (IER) system, potentially solving a 4,500-year-old architectural enigma. This model ...

About 1,500 years ago, in what is now South Korea, a gruesome practice known as ‘sunjang’ dictated that servants, retainers, ...

What if the strangest stories coming out of the Ozarks are not folklore, hoaxes, or internet hysteria, but the opening signs of something growing in plain sight? Across isolated Arkansas fields, ...

This was the Piri Reis map, a world chart compiled in 1513 by the Ottoman admiral and cartographer Piri Reis. While the map is famous for its early depiction of the Americas, a new wave of academic ...

A recent archaeological excavation in northwest China has uncovered a 3,000-year-old burial site containing deliberately broken bronze weapons, offering a remarkable glimpse into ancient attitudes ...

Nestled in the lush valleys of northern Jordan, just a short journey from Amman, lies one of the most spectacularly preserved Roman provincial cities in the world: Jerash. Known in antiquity as Gerasa ...