A 4,000-year-old stone slab, first discovered over a century ago in France, may be the oldest known map in Europe, according ...

A massive archaeological discovery in County Wicklow suggests that ancient Irish people lived in dense urban prehistoric ...

Migration into England was continuous from the Romans through to the Normans and men and women moved from different places ...

Applying the longest average reign length from the historical period to the six pre-Alexander I monarchs yields a foundation date of 573 BC, which the researchers round to 575 BC. This mathematical ...

Emperor Crassus became the richest Roman and one of the richest men in the ancient world through his cunning, business savvy ...

The international study, published in Science, analyzed 87 complete genomes from both ancient and modern felines to map how cats spread geographically over millennia. The earliest domestic cat DNA in ...

In Britain, Watling Street, a principal Roman road from Dover through London to the Welsh border, survives in modern highways like the A2 and A5, with its historic name maintained on signboards and ...

Celebrating the New Year was a popular custom around the world in ancient times. How was it celebrated in Alexander the Great ...