A recent archaeological discovery in Israel has unearthed a 5,500-year-old factory, unraveling a long-standing biblical ...

Explore the fascinating world of Greece's mysterious Linear B script, the enigmatic script of ancient Greece used by ...

Scientists have confirmed that Yersinia pestis, the bacterium behind later plagues like the Black Death, caused the Justinian ...

Ancient Babylonian world map from a clay tablet, nearly 3,000 years old, reveals a version of the Noah's Ark story and ...

In the hills of southeastern Turkey lies a site so ancient, it's turning our understanding of civilization on its head and ...

For the first time, researchers have uncovered direct genomic evidence of the bacterium behind the Plague of Justinian - the world's first recorded pandemic - in the Eastern Mediterranean, where the ...

For the first time, researchers at USF have uncovered direct genomic evidence of the bacterium behind the Plague of Justinian ...

What happened to the enigmatic Therapeutae, and what was their place in ancient history? The Therapeutae were primarily located near Lake Mareotis, close to Alexandria in Egypt. This city was a ...

While still a graduate student at Johns Hopkins University, UC Santa Cruz professor Elaine Sullivan unearthed ancient artifacts in Syria marked with the oldest known alphabetic symbols.

An ancient Egyptian mystery involving baboons that were mummified thousands of years ago may have been solved, according to a new study. The research has outlined evidence that two legendary ...