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7 Most Beautiful Island Countries in the World
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
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Found - metal from the Lost City of Atlantis
“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.”
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If We Can 3-D Print the Venus de Milo With Arms, What Are Her Arms Doing?
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...
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Massive triumphal marble arch built by Romans to honour Emperor Titus discovered
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.
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Medicine’s Hidden Roots in an Ancient Manuscript
A language scholar sets out to find the missing pages of an ancient, influential medical text by Galen of Pergamon.
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Mystery men hunt cultural past stolen by ISIL
Rescuing stolen antiquities from Syria and Iraq is the secret mission of a new undercover organisation with wealthy backers.
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Roman rubbish dump reveals secrets of ancient trading networks
Archaeologists are excavating Monte Testaccio, a huge artificial hill in the centre of Rome that is made up of millions of smashed amphorae
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The Fisher Kings
Along southern Florida’s coast, the ancient Calusa constructed an entire island of shell and defied the Spanish Conquest.
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Caral: Clay figures allude to elevated cultural role of women
Peru’s Land of the Lost might have been home to high priestesses.
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Gladiator Fights Revealed in Ancient Graffiti
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.
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Did the Ancient Greeks Get Ebola?
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.
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A technology using rapid pulses of light is helping archaeologists to chart ancient settlements hidden beneath dense forest canopies
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...
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Lost Myanmar Empire Is Stage for Modern Violence
Centuries ago the region around Mrauk U was a realm of remarkable ethnic harmony. Today it is roiled by sectarian violence.
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How the Inca Empire Engineered a Road Across Some of the World’s Most Extreme Terrain
For a new exhibition, a Smithsonian curator conducted oral histories with contemporary indigenous cultures to recover lost Inca traditions.
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Stanford scholar debunks long-held beliefs about economic growth in ancient Greece
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.
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The fish traps at Brewarrina are extraordinary and ancient structures. Why aren’t they better protected?
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.
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Did humans do this? Mystery of weird Amazonian savannah solved
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.
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Did American volcanoes trigger fall of Roman Empire?
American volcanoes sparked a huge dust cloud triggering catastrophic climate change which could have dealt the final blow to the Roman Empire.
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Ancient History in depth: Echoes of Plato's Atlantis
Article discussing the possible sources of the Atlantis myth first recorded by Plato
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Signs of world’s first pictograph found in Göbeklitepe
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.
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