The mystery of ice-free Antarctica has intrigued scholars and enthusiasts alike, with ancient maps suggesting a time when the continent was free of ice. These maps, such as the Piri Reis map, have ...

“[The king] Unis seizes the sky and splits its iron.” Inscribed in hieroglyphs in a 4,400-year-old pyramid, this sentence evidences that ancient Egyptians understood the extraterrestrial origin of ...

In the podcast Totuuden liepeillä professors Arto Mustajoki and Saana Svärd discuss how we know what we know about ancient Mesopotamia – and what we can’t know. Assyriologists study the peoples, ...

Researchers have unearthed the earliest definitive evidence of broomcorn millet (Panicum miliaceum) in ancient Iraq, challenging our understanding of humanity's earliest agricultural practices.

As far back as 40,000 years ago, humans kept track of time using relatively sophisticated knowledge of the stars, new research shows. Some of the world's oldest cave paintings have revealed how ...

Rachel Newcomb is an anthropologist and the Diane and Michael Maher distinguished professor of teaching and learning at Rollins College. She is the author of “Everyday Life in Global Morocco.” How ...