Literally "old mountain" in Quechua, Peru's dominant indigenous language, Machu Picchu is built into peaks more than 2,400 ...

Games like CivCity: Rome and Expeditions: Rome provide immersive experiences with historical figures and tactical combat set in the Roman Empire. From grand strategy titles like Imperator ...

As US President Donald Trump continues to strike blows at the heart of American soft power, stripping away every last fig and vestige of imperial pretence, one can’t help but recall the old ...

Rome authorities this month opened a new archaeological park and museum in the shadow of the Colosseum that features an original marble map of Ancient Rome that visitors can literally walk over.

Firaxis tried to represent her potential historical form in Himiko's Queen of Wa persona, as ancient Chinese sources ... If you have a mountain-rich empire, then the Inca can provide massive ...

Geographic Location of the Republic of Ecuador, and Map of Its Territorial Divisions ... Everything thus pointed to a virgin endemic of an ancient date. The present study was designed to evaluate ...

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.

Ancient-genomics researchers have pinpointed the homelands of a nomadic tribe that transformed the culture and genetics of Europe and Asia, revealing a potential source for the Indo–European ...

The new V.iaai fossil, estimated to be 68 million to 69 million years old, was found during an expedition in 2011, but has only now been analyzed. The study was published Wednesday (Feb. 5) in the ...

Gorditas can be traced back to the Aztec Empire, one of many key periods of Mexico’s indigenous history – indeed, the word nixtamalization comes from nixtamalli, a word in the Aztec Nahuatl ...

Credit: failing_angel. CC BY 2.0/flickr Togas and tunics were the fashion in ancient Rome for both men and women, but the Roman Empire covered a large area of the map. Thus, conquered cultures had ...

Credit: Public Domain Cleopatra VII Philopater ruled over Ancient Egypt from 51 to 30 BC and was the last ruler of the Ptolemaic Kingdom in Egypt. After her death, the Roman Empire took control of the ...