ROME, Dec 5 (Reuters) - While slaves in the ancient Roman city of Pompeii were considered no more than "speaking tools", some ...

New archaeological evidence is helping rewrite old myths about disabled people in the ancient world.

In the Ecuadorian Andes, young Otavalo Indigenous people are using anime to inspire pride in their culture and language.

People buried in "hanging coffins" thousands of years ago in China and Southeast Asia have finally been identified through ...

Many of the ancient southern Africans, including those who lived between about 10,200 and 1,400 years ago, "fall outside the ...

On a gray afternoon in November, a group of 19 people took a walk through grassy fields to a remote Bronze Age stone circle ...

Hunter-gatherers at Poverty Point may have built its massive earthworks not under the command of chiefs, but as part of a ...

Aside from their love of the sea, the ancient Greeks and Vikings shared much more that united them and divided them.

Archaeologists in Hungary have uncovered a 1,300-year-old warrior’s tomb containing one of only about 80 known Avar sabers, a ...

Archaeologists uncover 16 Indigenous canoes, one older than the Pyramids, revealing a vast prehistoric travel network.

A new study has uncovered a direct genetic link between ancient practitioners of the Hanging Coffin burial tradition and the ...