By learning the secrets of 2,000-year-old cement, researchers are trying to devise greener, more durable modern options.

The Egyptology PhD candidate sat down with FM to discuss Ancient Egyptian artifacts, translating hieroglyphs, and misconceptions about the ancient Near East.

Armed with new tools, scholars are finally able to read papyrus scrolls long deemed too fragile to open. The breakthrough ...

In ancient Greece, music education was as important as philosophy in cultivating young people's souls, perceiving both ...

Is the order of the modern alphabet connected to how our shared ancestors counted the phases of the moon and its effect on ...

On the surface, learning about the origins of the methods people use to bring order to their lives—such as time, weights and measures, and our financial systems—seems like just another history lesson.

Graffiti is something we are very familiar with, but how many of us know that this form of art was widely spread in ancient Greece?

BBC Digging For Britain presenter Alice Roberts was blown away when archaeologists unearthed ancient letters revealing what London was like 2,000 years ago.

Jokes and silly gendered assumptions aside, those who think about the ancient Romans more than they care ... Seneca has been ...

They explained that women were prohibited in ancient Rome from drinking wine, which was considered “a man’s drink”. The urn’s ash content reflected the Roman society’s gender divisions ...

Out of the thirteen Pauline epistles, scholars have cast doubt on the authorial authenticity of at least six letters. Was ...