Ancient Origins

Genome Study Challenges Europe’s Origins Following the Roman Empire

A woman's skull, approximately 1,400 years old, discovered during the excavation of her grave in what is now Ergoldsbach. Using a tiny bone fragment from the skull, palaeogeneticists at JGU ...

Roman Plaster Is Revered Worldwide. A Neolithic Group Beat Them to the Punch by 8,000 Years.

We’re giving the Romans a little too much credit.
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Cleopatra Lived Closer In Time To The Artemis II Launch Than To The Construction Of The Pyramids

Work out the math on that timeline, and you come to an unexpected conclusion: that Cleopatra lived closer to us today than ...
Morning Overview on MSN

Greek inscription pinpoints lost Temple of the Sun in Syria

For more than a century, scholars have known that the ancient city of Emesa, now the Syrian city of Homs, once housed a ...
Smithsonian Magazine

Dead Bodies Filled a Mass Grave When the First Plague Pandemic Struck This Early Medieval City. New Research Explores the Identity of the Victims

Researchers analyzed isotopes and DNA in the teeth of remains found in a mass grave from the Plague of Justinian, which swept ...