New research reveals that the 4,000-year-old city of Mohenjo-daro defied the 'rules' of history by becoming more equal as it became more successful. For decades, historians have generally agreed that ...

Beneath the crowded streets and ancient stone walls of Jerusalem, archaeologists have uncovered a remarkable tunnel that offers a new glimpse into the city’s past. Hidden for centuries beneath layers ...

A long-overlooked writing system from 5000 years ago is still largely undeciphered, but could mark the moment humans first represented their speech with written words ...

David Heath is a List Writer from the UK specializing in video games, movies, TV shows, and the occasional anime. Streaming services offer a variety of ancient history documentaries to fulfill the ...

P ity the poor Homo sapiens. In the great museums of the future, the display on their lives ca. 2024 will surely be among the least impressive. Picture them now, hunched over their little laminate ...

From politics to the Oscars, the #MeToo movement is spotlighting the nature of women’s relationship to power. Why are traditional positions of power still closed to so many? How do women work within ...

The 1800s are ancient history to me. People were riding horses and dying of consumption and writing letters with feather pens ...

Bread has been intricately woven into human history for thousands of years, and ancient Greece was no exception.