Building Your Worldview Clarification: Sometimes when it asks you to finish a sentence it is asking you to summarize what your read. Answers for Difficult Days by David Quine Monday & Tuesday complete Bible Study Number 3: Salvation....from the Penalty, Power, and the Presence of

I am reposting this list for International Women’s day. I would also like to ask for help from anyone who would like to aid in creating individual posts for each of the names in this list.

Lessons from long-lost civilizations. By Hannah Yi.

There are a few gorgeous island countries in the world that are definitely worth vising. Summer is fast approaching and that means it’s time to start planning y

“Nothing similar has ever been found,” said Sebastiano Tusa, Sicily’s superintendent of the Sea Office, speaking to Discovery News. “We knew orichalcum from ancient texts and a few ornamental objects.”

The Venus de Milo is a paradox: the embodiment of beauty, yet disfigured. And she is a puzzle, gazing serenely at something we cannot see, something once held, we assume, by her missing arms. “La Vénus de Milo est un mystère,” declared the French archaeologist Salomon Reinach in a 1890...

Archaeologists in Rome discover, at one end of the Circus Maximus chariot racing arena, the foundations of a huge triumphal arch built for the Emperor Titus.

A language scholar sets out to find the missing pages of an ancient, influential medical text by Galen of Pergamon.

Rescuing stolen antiquities from Syria and Iraq is the secret mission of a new undercover organisation with wealthy backers.

Archaeologists are excavating Monte Testaccio, a huge artificial hill in the centre of Rome that is made up of millions of smashed amphorae

Along southern Florida’s coast, the ancient Calusa constructed an entire island of shell and defied the Spanish Conquest. 

Peru’s Land of the Lost might have been home to high priestesses.

Graffiti etched into walls of the ancient city of Aphrodisias reveals life some 1,500 years ago, including gladiator combat, chariot racing and religious fighting.

A new paper from Dr. Powel Kazanjian theorizes that the famous Plague of Athens was caused by the same virus that has decimated West Africa in recent years.

Colorado State University archaeologist Chris Fisher found out about lidar in 2009. He was surveying the ruins of Angamuco in west-central Mexico the traditional way, with a line of grad students and assistants walking carefully while looking at the ground for bits of ceramics, the remains of an old foundation or even a tomb. He had expected to find a settlement, but instead...

Centuries ago the region around Mrauk U was a realm of remarkable ethnic harmony. Today it is roiled by sectarian violence.

For a new exhibition, a Smithsonian curator conducted oral histories with contemporary indigenous cultures to recover lost Inca traditions.

Using a pioneering digitization project that maps out details of life in the ancient world, classics Professor Josiah Ober links the democratic politics and surprisingly robust economy of classical Greek society.

The Ngunnhu traps on the Barwon river were once a great gathering site for Indigenous people, but their present custodians say damage and neglect since white settlement is a shameful blot on Australia’s heritage record.

What is a vast grassland doing in the middle of the world's largest rainforest? The answer has won respect for the fire-starting ways of indigenous people.

American volcanoes sparked a huge dust cloud triggering catastrophic climate change which could have dealt the final blow to the Roman Empire.

Article discussing the possible sources of the Atlantis myth first recorded by Plato

Turkey s Göbeklitepe, the site of the world’s oldest temple, may be the home of the first pictograph, according to a scene etched into an obelisk.

The Kültepe-Kaniş-Karum trade colony in the Central Anatolian province of Kayseri continues to amaze archeologists, with an expert at the dig revealing that tablets citing women’s rights were discovered at the Bronze Age settlement.

One hundred seventy thousand years ago, our cave-dwelling ancestors ground up clay laced with iron oxide and covered their bodies, painted their walls, and encased their dead with the rich red of ochre. And over the thousands of years that followed...

The rock of the Campi Flegrei Caldera, west of Naples, Italy, has an intricate network of mineral fibers—just like the famed Roman concrete. Christopher Intagliata reports.

The Maya practiced sustainable agriculture that supported dense populations well beyond the Classic period.

Ancient Aliens Debunked is a 3 hour refutation of the theories proposed on the History Channel series Ancient Aliens. It is essentially a point by point critique of the "ancient astronaut theory" which has been proposed by people like Erich von Däniken and Zecharia Sitchin as well as many others.

A prehistoric trackway is unearthed on a beach in Cleethorpes during a coastal archaeology project.

A banknote from 1380 that threatens decapitation, a set of 17th-century prints so delicate they had never been opened, and 3000-year-old ‘oracle bones’ are now freely available for the world to view on the Cambridge Digital Library.  

Eight feet long from edge to edge and brushed with beautiful calligraphy, the stretched-out scroll hanging on the walls of the Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago could easily be mistaken for a poem, or an ornate royal decree. It's neither. It's a prenup... By Cara Giaimo.

Where and how did the ancient Greeks gain the wealth with which to build a culture that became central to the modern world? By Josiah Ober.

Oatmeal is generally considered a no-no on the modern paleo diet, but the original paleo eaters were definitely grinding oats and other grains for dinner, according to new research.

Andrew Robinson reflects on the most tantalizing of all the undeciphered scripts — that used in the civilization of the Indus valley in the third millennium BC.

A warrior’s tomb full of precious metals and jewels is expected to give insight into the rise of the Mycenaeans, from whom Greek culture developed. By Nicholas Wade.