Some time ago, we dedicated an article to explaining what the Nika riots were, a sporting brawl that turned into open rebellion against Emperor Justinian in sixth-century A.D. Constantinople. That ...

In Egypt, Cleopatra—a universal symbol of ancient royalty—continues to captivate through her legacy and the mysteries ...

Discover how analyzing simple pottery remains can help us rewrite human and equine history.

Bronze Age people of Sicily ate horse meat, new study shows, pushing back the animal’s arrival on the island by 1,000 years.

For decades, historians believed horses did not reach Sicily until around the first millennium B.C. But new research has ...

Scholars were wrong about prehistoric Sicily. Davide Tanasi, a professor at the University of South Florida, has new evidence ...

By Georgia Jackson, College of Arts and SciencesScholars were wrong about prehistoric Sicily.Davide Tanasi, a professor at ...

For 20 years, National Geographic explorer and archaeologist Kathleen Martínez has been on a mission to find Cleopatra. It’s ...

Hundreds of coins that depict Cleopatra VII have been discovered in an Egyptian temple. The archaeologist who led the team ...

Officials in Egypt are infuriated after a 3,000-year-old bracelet belonging to an ancient pharaoh was stolen from a museum ...

The late Stone Age is not commonly associated with socially stratified societies, yet archaeologist Mehmet Özdoğan argues social and political elites were already shaping communities when humans began ...

Despite the diversity of government and social structures, every country today faces social and political tensions tied to concentrated and unaccountable ...