When Julius Caesar wrote a series of histories about the Gallic Wars around 53 B.C.E., he mentioned a fascinating group of ...

YAKUSHIMA, Kagoshima Prefecture—An ancient giant has fallen in the forest ... However, this one was not Lady Eboshi's fault. During Typhoon No. 10's sluggish path of destruction, it snapped ...

The findings come from a study of bone tools discovered at Olduvai Gorge in Tanzania and dated to around 1.5 million years ago. The discovery joins other finds — such as a 1.4-million-year-old ...

A joint team of British and Egyptian archaeologists spent two years excavating a tomb, dubbed No. C4, located just west of ...

For many years, the ancient Greeks and Romans were fooled. It might seem odd that something as seemingly inconsequential as a spice – a food flavouring or something to burn to add aroma to the ...

Recorded, and probably rewritten by the historian Thucydides, it is one of the primary sources on which our understanding of ancient Athens is based and provides a unique insight into just how ...

Avocados surged in popularity with Millennials a decade ago, leading to criticism about overspending on avocado toast ‒ but a new study shows they were far from the first generation to love the ...

The ancient Greeks regarded a healthy body almost as highly as a good education, and young men of wealthy background would spend ... Athletes wore no clothes and it was common practice for them ...

ASHBOURNE, England — This ancient form of soccer has a rule forbidding ... Rules are limited but “no murder” was an early stipulation for the game that dates back to at least the 1600s.