The epics of Homer, written during Greece's Archaic Period, gave form and substance to the gods of mythology, shaping Greek ...

The people of ancient Rome didn’t have access to modern science, but they still developed complex – and incredibly intuitive ...

MIT researchers traced chemical fossils in ancient rocks back to the ancestors of today’s demosponges. A team of geochemists ...

Queen Nefertiti co-ruled with Pharaoh Akhenaten, whose reign transformed ancient Egypt's religion and gender roles in the ...

Domestic cats originated in North Africa and spread to Europe in the past 2000 years, according to DNA evidence, while in ...

New archaeological evidence is helping rewrite old myths about disabled people in the ancient world.

Before paper was widely used as a writing material, people in the country mainly used brushes and ink to write on jiandu, ...

An unrelated species of small cat lived in human settlements thousands of years before domestic cats, say scientists.

If you’ve ever lived with a cat, you know they’re often an enigma. That said, scientists may have solved an enduring mystery ...

Successive major droughts, each lasting longer than 85 years, were likely a key factor in the eventual fall of the Indus ...

Archaeologists from the Budapest History Museum made the significant discovery during extensive excavations in Óbuda, a ...

A Europe-focused study published in the journal Science examined 87 ancient and modern cat genomes and found that the domestic cat, which has the scientific name Felis catus, originated in North ...