Rashid's must-read, millennia-spanning history, cleverly wrought from tablets written in the world's oldest script ...

A new look at fossils from the Cambrian Period around 500 million years ago has revealed that some of the earliest animals spent time on mudflats that were sometimes exposed to the air – a find that c ...

Ancient Greek geographer Strabo is one of the greatest writers in the ancient world, devoting his life to studying, writing, ...

The Bronze Age was a period of intensive contacts in the Levant, Egypt, Mesopotamia and southern Europe. It rapidly developed ...

This is the twelvth part in a series about riding night trains across Europe and the Near East to Armenia—to spend time in ...

A Leicester lecturer who attempts to predict the future by analysing sheep livers claims Cynthia Erivo will win an Oscar this ...

Some national borders are determined by natural phenomena like seas, mountains and rivers. Most, however, are created by ...

Learn how environmental changes have humbled many of history’s most successful and dominant cultures.

Whether it’s the luxury of truffles, the sensuality of oysters, or the heat of chilli, these foods carry histories of passion ...

From the bronze age to the Industrial Revolution and beyond, the discovery and development of new materials has been a ...

By 1600 b.c., less than one in 20 bones found at sites in the Levant typically come from pigs, and most of those appear to be ...

From the Bronze age to the Industrial Revolution and beyond, the discovery and development of new materials has been a driving force in human history.