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 ...

A team from the University of South Florida (USF) found traces of horse meat in ancient cookware from a Bronze Age site in ...

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 ...

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 ...

Tanasi published his findings — the earliest documented evidence for the presence and consumption of horse meat in early ...