Under the leadership of statesmen like Pericles, Athens developed a form of direct democracy that allowed its male citizens ...

Ancient Greek king Pyrrhus of Epirus' political reforms, urban projects, and cultural patronage transformed Epirus into a ...

Male beauty and strength were highly valued by ancient Greeks, and they were celebrated at a special beauty pageant known as ...

Calligraphy was once China’s highest art form—then the Communist Party tried to erase it. Now, under Xi Jinping, it’s making a comeback. At Sotheby’s in Hong Kong, a rare copy of the ...

The Ancient City houses the strange and massive portal-like structure at the center. This portal consists of strange blocks that are harder than Obsidian and take longer time to break it. So, ...

At Ancient Origins, we believe that one of the most important fields of knowledge we can pursue as human beings is our beginnings. And while some people may seem content with the story as it stands, ...

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SPARTA, Mich. — Students at two schools in Sparta were removed from the classrooms Wednesday because of a chemical leak at a nearby business. Sparta High School and Ridgeview Elementary were ...

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 bird with T. rex-like skull discovered in China Daniel Ksepka , a paleontologist at the Bruce Museum in Connecticut who was not involved in the study, agreed.

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 ...