A giant patch of black, fossilized lava that was spewed across the Sahara desert over millions of years looks like an eerie, gold-speckled shadow in this stunning composite of three years' worth ...

It is a covert, low-intensity conflict with serious consequences. Moscow has long been waging a shadow war against the military alliance, but the war in Ukraine has led to an escalation of hybrid ...

Population of ancient Greece, Men weighing merchandise, side B of an Attic black-figure amphora. Credit: Marie-Lan Nguyen Wikimedia Commons CC BY 2.5 Estimating the population of ancient Greece is a ...

Many players have fond memories of bygone days when co-op on a single screen was a fixture in video games, often in split-screen form. Teaming up with a friend and tackling enemies together, or ...

Get Instant Summarized Text (Gist) Excavations at Kurd Qaburstan in Iraq have uncovered significant Middle Bronze Age artifacts, including clay tablets, a game board, and structural remains. These ...

Here’s how it works. An ancient and enigmatic stone circle in the Middle East may not be a prehistoric astronomical observatory after all, according to a new study of satellite images.

But using ice cores and other ancient data points allows scientists to peer much deeper into the past, and establish that the climate today is likely warmer than it has been in 120,000 years.

A mix of ancient divinities, Aphrodite was patron over love, beauty, fertility, and war. But the venerated Greek deity has a more complex rise to fame than one might think. The birth of ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. The writer is a professor in the department of classics and ancient history at Durham University A striking ...