More than a century ago, the scientist Alfred Wegener proposed the notion of an ancient supercontinent, which he named Pangaea (sometimes spelled Pangea), after putting together several lines of ...

Our favorite titles of the year resurrect forgotten histories and examine how the United States ended up where it is today Meilan Solly The intact burial—unearthed on this day in 1922 ...

Archaeologist Christine Hawixbrock and her team discover a small cymbal during the excavation of an ancient Khmer temple complex. Artifacts like this would have been used as part of a religious ...

What and how one learned depended on one's place in society. In ancient times, much like today, education was highly valued. Subjects could range from reading and writing to philosophy and ethics.

Trevor Van Damme receives funding from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada. While ancient Greece is one of the best known cultures of antiquity, there are no surviving ...

The release of Cecil B. DeMille’s Samson and Delilah in 1949 heralded the return of the ancient world to the screen. It’s a movie filled with blood, desire, and a doomed romance, as the ...

Archaeologists located a number of buildings including this one with stone steps Archaeologists in Mexico have discovered the remains of an ancient Maya city deep in the jungle of the Yucatán ...

The ancient city was found near some of Egypt's best-known monuments The discovery of a 3,000-year-old city that was lost to the sands of Egypt has been hailed as one of the most important ...