Apr. 14, 2025 — Wealth inequality began shaping human societies more than 10,000 years ago, long before the rise of ancient empires or the invention of writing. That's according to a new study ...

NEW YORK (AP) — A set of ancient wooden spears may be younger than scientists thought and wielded by Neanderthals instead of their ancestors. The complete spears made of spruce and pine are ...

The James Webb space telescope's deepest view of a single target yet depicts spinning arcs of light that are galaxies from the universe's distant past, the European Space Agency said Tuesday.

Article continues below ADVERTISEMENT This is a place where ancient empires quite literally overlap. I stood in the Hagia Sophia, a building that has been a church, a mosque, and a museum ...

The texts have been automatically lemmatized at the Centre of Excellence in Ancient Near Eastern Empires. See section Datasets and scripts for links to the data. The networks are created using ...

Therefore, on the edges of ancient empires, cultural expectations softened. What tangible outcomes does that translate to? Social and cultural flexibility, for one. Across borders and on the frontier, ...

Located at the crossroads of several trade routes from the 2nd millennium B.C., Aleppo was ruled successively by the Hittites, Assyrians, Arabs, Mongols, Mamelukes and Ottomans. The 13th-century ...

With its foundations dating back to 753 BC, Rome was the heartbeat of one of the most influential empires in history. Walking through its ancient center, you'll pass the awe-inspiring Colosseum ...

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