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

Instead, the study suggests, Deinosuchus belonged to an ancient lineage that split off before the last common ancestor of today’s alligators and crocodiles, carrying characteristics that are ...

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

Members of New Mexico’s Picuris Pueblo Tribal Nation have long told stories about having descended from ancient North American ancestors. Genetic evidence now backs up what Picuris people ...

There is a problem with writing a history of a seminal moment in the ancient world when the major source for it ... either come over to Athens’s side in its long struggle against Sparta (known to ...

The Pittsburgh Steelers selected defensive tackle Derrick Harmon with the 28th pick in the 2025 NFL Draft. Harmon, a Detroit native, played college football at Michigan State and Oregon.

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 ...

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.

The "Eye of Horus," a depiction of a single stylized eye looking straight ahead, is found throughout ancient Egypt. The symbol is frequently seen in ancient burials — especially on a type of ...

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But skeletons don’t lie, this really happened. Ancient Sparta took "tough love" to a whole new level. Every year, teenage boys were whipped mercilessly at the altar of Artemis Orthia ...