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

Meet the people driving the kingdom's ambitious cultural expansion and its transformation into globally-recognized art hub.

The domestication of maize is one of the greatest examples of humankind's impact on evolution. Early farmers' pre-industrial plant breeding choices turned corn from a nearly inedible crop into the ...

Apollonius is far from the only ancient scholar whose work was saved by the medieval Islamic tradition: “we generally ...

The Kings and Generals animated historical documentary series on the ancient civilizations continues with a video on Arabia before Islam as we talk about the religion, society, culture, and economic ...

"This is the best-documented Roman court case from Judea apart from the trial of Jesus." In the 1950s, an ancient papyrus ...