"Ancient" Blogs & Blog Posts

While snapping photos at a park along the Israel-Syria border, a teenager spotted something “strange” on the ground. His family had their doubts, but he picked it up anyway — and found a 1,700-year-old artifact.Itamar Grossman’s family and th...

Researchers used ultraviolet photography to see a chapter of the Bible that was hidden underneath other text for more than 1,500 years.

Researchers revealed their findings on the "ancient history of kissing" in Mesopotamian societies, in an article published in Science.

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...

Hirakawa Yasuhiro is a master blacksmith for Sasuke in Sakai, Japan, who makes high-quality scissors using methods that go back to the fifth century.

Archaeologists have made some incredible discoveries about burial rites this year and last. Here we round up 12 of them.

Day 5 ended with us exhausted, crashing onto our beds and having a sound night’s sleep after a paradoxical search for a hotel with available rooms in what is one of the largest cities in the world with plenty of hotels. But that’s how thi...