As the saying went, all roads once led to Rome — and those roads stretched 50% longer than previously known, according to a ...

The Roman Empire had an impressive road network. A new dataset now visualizes the road map, adding over 100,000 kilometers of previously unknown routes.

Historians are occasionally forced to revise their preconceived notions after discovering something hidden in the shadows and ...

The dawn of the Bronze Age was a tumultuous time for many human societies, as the social order of the preceding Copper Age fell apart. Yet little is known about this pivotal period in human history, ...

Ancient rocks reveal a potassium-40 deficit, the first physical evidence of the proto-Earth and insights into early planetary ...

The ancient Assyrians couldn’t exactly take to the phones like the IRS, making incessant calls demanding that loyal subjects ...

Pre-construction archaeological work at Benin City, Nigeria. Excavation of two building plots for the Museum of West African Art, Benin City, Nigeria, provides new perspectives on the Kingdom of Benin ...

In ‘The Queer Thing About Sin’ (Bloomsbury Continuum, Jan.), the classicist argues that ancient history reveals a connection ...

Although the Greeks and Romans linked environmental harm with climate change to a more limited extent than we do today, they ...

Teachers at nine high schools in northeastern Australia discovered days before an ancient history exam that they had ...