Work and wages varied immensely in ancient Greece. Agriculture was the backbone of the economy but work was available in ...

From mysterious ruins to jaw-dropping architecture, these archaeological gems are like time machines in stone.

Present-day speakers of Hungarian, Finnish and Estonian have substantial Siberian ancestry, a new study of ancient genomes finds. These roots likely spread westward from a group of people living in ...

This cave was sealed off like someone wanted it forgotten forever. But once it was opened, the signs were undeniable that ancient people once lived inside. The deeper the team went, the more shocking ...

Our modern financial world has evolved to include the use of credit cards, online banking, and Venmo. But centuries before ...

Archaeologists in Egypt have discovered the 4,400-year-old tomb of a prince whose burial has a giant "false" pink door to enable souls to enter and exit. The tomb belongs to Prince Userefre, also ...

Examination of an ancient alabaster vase in the Yale Peabody Museum’s Babylonian Collection has revealed traces of opiates, providing the clearest evidence to date of broad opium use in ancient ...

Sometime around 100 AD, the Roman lawyer and aristocrat Pliny sent a letter to his third wife, Calpurnia – who was staying in a different part of Italy – to express how much he loved and missed her: I ...

The recorded history of wine in Ancient Greece begins around the 15th century BC, while viticulture appears to have existed ...

Long before farming took hold, ancient Indigenous peoples of the American Southwest were already shaping the future of a wild potato. New evidence shows that this small, hardy plant was deliberately ...