"Ancient History" Blogs & Blog Posts

With Shōgun getting stellar reviews and big ratings on Hulu, feudal Japanese culture is back on our collective radar. The juice of this limited series is exploring the enormous cultural and political differences between the Japanese and the European...

A stone-age wall stretching for nearly a mile over the seabed in the Bay of Mecklenburg may by the oldest "megastructure" in Europe. Named the Blinkerwall, it rests under about 70 feet of water and the best guess is that it was constructed by hunter-...

The leathery Tyrannosaurus Rex of vintage imagination has given way to the feathered horror of modern paleontological speculation. But science has one more adjustment to make to our understanding of the ancient theropod: those enormous teeth were per...

Science and archeology journalist, Andrew Lawler, has made a name for himself writing unique and compelling books on somewhat unconventional subjects. His first book, Why Did the Chicken Cross the World?, explored the cultural history of the domestic...

The southern Italian city of Baiae was once a magnificent metropolis on pair with Pompeii. It eventually stopped being a hedonistic vacation town for various Caesars and Julii, and endured a few centuries of gradual below before it finally sunk below...

If you've spent any time bushwhacking the thorny thickets of Graham Hancock-y ancient apocalypse flapdoodle, you've likely encountered the great handbag mystery. Sure as sure, carved images of gods, wise ones, kings, and emissaries from the Dog Star,...

In a recently-published paper in the academic journal Antiquity, a group of researchers from Istanbul University led by Eylem Özdoğan claim to have unearthed a piece of ancient art containing the oldest-known narrative scene: A wall relief, com...