Unique ceramic figures along with a 2,500-year-old special type of water-basin have been discovered in the Ancient Greek city ...

Ancient Greek geographer Strabo is one of the greatest writers in the ancient world, devoting his life to studying, writing, ...

As a result, South Africa's past has been compressed into a shortened timeline and a limited geography. That shorter version ...

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

Linguists and archaeologists have long argued about which group of ancient people spoke the original Indo-European language. A new study in the journal Nature throws a new theory into the fray.

Ancient-genomics researchers have pinpointed the homelands of a nomadic tribe that transformed the culture and genetics of Europe and Asia, revealing a potential source for the Indo–European ...

The mission of the Department of Physical Geography is to be at the forefront of research in Earth Surface Dynamics. Our knowledge and understanding of Earth’s continental and coastal systems ...

The arrival of spring has long been celebrated across various ancient civilizations, with festivals marking the seasonal transition ... meaning “new day,” is a 3,000-year-old festival that celebrates ...

But there has long been efforts to change India’s name to Bharat, an ancient Sanskirt term, thus removing any references to ‘India ... Historically, the region has been known as the Persian Gulf, ...

At Ancient Origins, we believe that one of the most important fields of knowledge we can pursue as human beings is our beginnings. And while some people may seem content with the story as it stands, ...

For more than a century, the ancient Indus script has mystified researchers. Left behind by the Indus Valley civilization, which emerged more than five millennia ago in present-day India and ...