The women of Greece’s oldest civilization wove fabrics, carried weapons and wept over their lost children.

From the sleek, deadly triremes to the colossal tessarakonteres, ancient Greek ships inspired modern ship design.

Cutting ties with continental Europe in around 3000 BC, ancient Britons abandoned innovation and shunned trade. Why did they ...

By Euripides L Evriviades Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s visit to Cyprus – India’s first in over two decades and the first of ...

Many have been reassembled and put on display alongside terracotta horses and ancient bronze weapons like swords, spear tips, and arrowheads that the original looters missed. It’s a fascinating ...

The British model provides a striking contrast. Since the 1996 Treasure Act, British law has required that significant archaeological finds be reported. Instead of simply seizing them, if the state ...

Linguistics, working on sound shifts, has given us about 1,600 words in Proto-Indo-European, which no one has spoken in over ...

Sutton Hoo, in Suffolk, is no ordinary archaeological site. Discovered in 1939, it stunned historians with its 7th-century ship burial, filled with golden treasures, finely wrought weapons, and an ...

A man broke into the terracotta army museum in Xi’an, China last Friday, damaging two of the ancient clay warriors ... cases being equipped with real bronze weapons. Each has been stamped ...