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

This high-status gift is one of the many ways meteoritic iron was revered by ancient civilizations. One of the earliest Egyptian hieroglyphics for iron seems to be derived from a longer phrase ...

Among the most striking and memorable exhibits in the British Museum are the Assyrian reliefs depicting the royal hunt. These ...

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

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Stars were "the heavenly writing"; a sheep's liver was "the tablet of the gods". You have a date palm with two tops? People ...

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.