A new study has found that the people who made China’s Terracotta Army may have included women and children, not only adult ...

Abandoning infants was a widespread and accepted practice in ancient Rome, often used to limit family size (particularly the ...

A bronze ring from Cleopatra's submerged palace on Antirhodos depicts the Lighthouse of Alexandria, one of the Seven Wonders ...

A new study of 2,316 burials from China’s Central Plain suggests that ancient inequality became durable thousands of years ...

The Pyramids of Giza and the Great Sphinx might be Egypt’s superstars, but look beyond them and you’ll find intriguing myths, a warm modern-day culture and a very human side to ancient history—and ...

Past to Present is a series of five videos that explore ancient Egypt, Greece, Rome and China, created through a collaboration between ABC Education and the NSW Department of Education. The concept of ...

The three ages of the ancient world — Stone, Bronze, and Iron — encompass the formative years of human history in most regions. Learn how we went from dwelling in caves to building civilizations over ...

In Crossroads of Ancient History 2, I presented a hypothesis that the Descent of the Heavenly Grandchild was the arrival of ...

Deep beneath the world's oceans, researchers are uncovering ancient shipwrecks, unusual marine ecosystems, and submerged ...

Colors mean different things to different people across time and space, but the color red has remained an integral way of representing hate, love and luxury for millennia. In a new book on the history ...