Transforming the brain tissue to glass would have required an extremely hot and fast-moving ash cloud, lab experiments suggest.

A mysterious bronze spoon unearthed on the Isle of Man is rare evidence of ancient ritual in Europe.

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Kissing is a big part of human culture. According to ancient cuneiform tablets found in Iraq, humans have been smooching since at least 2500 B.C. Around the world today, many societies share kisses in ...

British archaeologist Sir Arthur Evans purchased some ancient stones with mysterious inscriptions on them at a flea market in Athens. On a later trip to the excavations a ...

On a late-summer day in 1856, a letter carrier stepped from a mail coach in front of a three-story townhouse in Mayfair, in central London. Crossing the threshold, the courier handed a wax-sealed ...

Scientists have digitally "unwrapped" a 2,000-year-old charred scroll from the Roman town of Herculaneum - providing the first glimpse inside the ancient document since it was buried by Mount Vesuvius ...

The 21st-century advent of ancient DNA science surfaced similar results. “We know from cuneiform tablets that people such as the Hittites spoke Anatolian, but these people didn’t have Yamnaya ancestry ...

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.

Ancient-genomics researchers have pinpointed the homelands of a nomadic tribe that transformed the culture and genetics of Europe and Asia, revealing a potential source for the Indo–European ...

Recently, studies on a Hittite version of the poem have opened new perspectives on its transmission and adaptation in the ancient world ... The texts, written in cuneiform on clay tablets, have been ...

Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema, Sappho (the poetess) and Alcaeus. What are the top poems inspired by ancient Greece? Credit: Wikimedia Commons / Walters Museum Poetry stands as one of humanity’s oldest art ...