The Spartans raised their children to be tough and stoic servants of the state. Boys were sent to train as soldiers from a ...

Hollywood often takes creative liberties when depicting ancient civilizations, leading to widespread misconceptions. While ...

A scarab beetle set in gold shows that ancient Egyptians thought the heart was the most important organ in the human body.

They say it indicates women were valued members of the ancient society. A team of archaeologists on Thursday said they had unearthed the 5,000-year-old remains of a noblewoman in Caral ...

The discovery of ancient bones carved into tubes in the mountains of Peru led researchers to conduct chemical analyses. Results of chemical and microscopic studies showed that the tubes contained ...

Though few have heard of the ancient queen, nearly everyone has heard of her grandson, Alexander the Great. "This is the only appropriate location that we have determined may be the ancient city ...

An ancient Middle Eastern civilization that developed an early alphabet spread its culture far and wide — but not its DNA, finds a 23 April Nature study 1 of hundreds of ancient human genomes.