In ancient Greece people enjoyed chilled wine at social gatherings, using specially designed cooling pots called psykter.

While this is a tragedy, it is also the new reality. And just like that, the age of American empire, the great Pax Americana, ended. Share We cannot overstate what has just happened. It took just 71 ...

The Phoenician culture emerged in the Bronze Age city-states of the Levant, developing prominent innovations such as the ...

An archaeological site in Germany suggests communal hunting and complex thinking emerged earlier in human evolution than once thought.

And what’s more, the people of ancient Troy knew it too. A new archaeological study has found physical and chemical evidence ...

One of them, a postgraduate student from the University of Winchester, found a Bronze Age axe head in their collection. The museum wrote on Facebook: "Under guidance from professionals, volunteers ...

Age of Empires 2 simply cannot be stopped. 26 years on from the game's original launch, and six years since the release of its almighty Definitive Edition, real-time strategy's most benevolent ...

The discovery, announced by Guatemala’s Culture and Sports Ministry, was made within the ancient city of Tikal - an enormous city-state which battled for centuries with the Kaanul dynasty for ...

Previous analysis indicates that Earth endured a roughly 200–300 year long ice age starting around 540 ... collected not from modern areas of the ancient Roman empire, but from Iceland.

Researchers have found evidence to suggest that a 'little ice age' contributed to the Roman ... in the Eastern Empire's decline. In 286 AD, Ancient Rome was split into two parts: the Western ...

Archaeologists have uncovered an ancient Egyptian settlement beneath Hellenistic ruins in the north-western Nile delta that may be as many as 3500 years old. The find provides new evidence of ...