The ancient faith dating back to 1700 B.C. is in danger of becoming extinct if its dwindling followers don't find a way to ...

New research suggests that the first Indo-European speakers lived in southern Russia 6,500 years ago, challenging ...

BC, the Near East was dominated by three powerful kingdoms: the Median Empire of Astyages, the Neo-Babylonian Empire of ...

A 2,000-year-old Herculaneum scroll buried by the eruption of Mount Vesuvius is filled with lost words that scholars can now ...

When it comes to chronicling the past, it seems there are basically two ways discoveries are made: either they’re the result ...

Surprising, bold, and enduring… the history of eroticism in the Arab-Muslim world shines a spotlight on homosexuality and the ...

Scholars are studying an ancient scroll that has been virtually unrolled 2,000 years after it was burned to a crisp during ...

Where lies the origin of the Indo-European language family? Researchers contribute a new piece to this puzzle. They analyzed ancient DNA from 435 individuals from archaeological sites across Eurasia ...

New genetic evidence traces the roots of English, Sanskrit, and hundreds of other languages to a group of hunter-gatherers in ...

A new study claims to have identified the first speakers of Indo-European language, which gave rise to English, Sanskrit and ...

Scientists say that the two lost, but extremely important books by Apollonius, the Greek mathematician known to the ancient ...