At Ancient Origins, we believe that one of the most important fields of knowledge we can pursue as human beings is our beginnings. And while some people may seem content with the story as it stands, ...

The cannabis traces found at Jirzankal Cemetery in the Pamir Mountains had unusually high concentrations of THC.

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We Might Feel Love in Our Fingertips But Did the Ancient Mesopotamians? Dec. 4, 2024 — A multidisciplinary team of researchers studied a large body of texts to find out how people in the ancient ...

How Ancient India Transformed the World', highlights India’s often-forgotten role as an economic and civilisational hub ...

Explore Xi'an, the incredible ancient city and the ‘birthplace of civilisation,' home to the Terracotta Army and countless ...

Ruling is a skilled trade, Plato argues. And like any other trade, not everyone has the talent or the training to be good at ...

They also found arrowheads made of flint, a material associated with ancient trade from Yemen and Oman, with traces of ochre ... “The discovery is unique and it enables us to touch small but important ...

Linguists and archaeologists have long argued about which group of ancient people spoke the original Indo-European language. A new study in the journal Nature throws a new theory into the fray.

At its height in the 5th century BC, Athens may have had a population of around 250,000 to 300,000 people, including free citizens ... These seven cities were dominant in politics, trade, and culture ...

"The discovery is unique and it enables us to touch small but important historical moments of the people who traversed the desert through this place centuries ago." (ANI/TPS) Tel Aviv [Israel], ...