An unusual archaeological discovery in the Judean Hills has again attracted the attention of scientists. A silver goblet from ...

In this two-part article, the author presents an overview of what various ancient textual artifacts “remember” about the earliest loan closings ...

Claiming Plato founded the first university misses the mark. The Greeks were latecomers.

Mary of Egypt’s story, a woman given to prostitution driven by insatiable lust rather than financial necessity, who underwent a dramatic conversion, and then lived in the desert with only the flowing ...

The names and symbols associated with the zodiac signs are deeply rooted in ancient mythology and traits attributed to each ...

Unearthed in Germany, the Nebra Sky Disc may be the world’s oldest cosmic map, revealing how ancient Europeans read the stars ...

The existential question of which countries are the oldest has long intrigued historians, and for good reason. However, defining what makes a country "old" is challenging, as it depends on historical ...

Ahead of her biggest show yet at the Royal Academy, Rose Wylie shows us around her studio and living space ...

New analysis of ancient Mesopotamian medical prescriptions suggests that, in a small but striking set of cases, patients were instructed to seek out the sanctuary of a deity as part of their healing ...

More than 4,500 years ago, in one of humanity’s earliest civilizations, gender-diverse individuals held respected and ...

Marvel Comics April 2026 Solicits was the most-read story on Bleeding Cool yesterday. Lying In The Gutters is the daily ...

Excavations at the ancient Anatolian city of Kanesh in Turkey have revealed a district where merchants from the distant Mesopotamian city of Assur in Iraq lived and worked. Some 23,000 cuneiform ...