Around 1200 B.C.E., the ancient world experienced one of its most dramatic and puzzling transformations,the Bronze Age ...

Around 1200 B.C.E., the ancient world experienced one of its most dramatic and puzzling upheavals, the Bronze Age Collapse. This widespread event saw the sudden decline and fall of several advanced ...

Researchers recovered the first Yersinia pestis bacteria genome from a Bronze Age animal. It reveals how a plague spread in ...

Troy’s story is more than archaeological curiosity – it is a mirror. Like many societies past and present, its economic ambitions outpaced ecological limits. The warning signs were there: falling ...

Beating a 12-year-old rival was once child’s play for an elite swimmer but it has become an unlikely badge of honour when ...

Sheep helped spread an early form of the plague, suggests new research. The bacterium that causes bubonic plague has been ...

Archaeological sheep bones unveiled at a Bronze Age site in the Eurasian steppe. Ancient animal bones are the key to ...

An ancient strain of plague ( Yersinia pestis) has been identified in a 4,000-year-old domesticated sheep. The study provides the first direct evidence linking livestock to the spread of this early ...

Ramesh Budihal’s bronze medal at the Asian Surfing Championships marks India’s breakthrough on the continental surfing stage.

We've scoured the city for some of the most quirky architecture and sights and we thought we'd set our readers a small test ...

Prologue On and off, I have spent decades studying Greek history. I am not so sure, however, that I fully understand what made the ancient Greeks so ...