History is filled with powerful empires that seemed invincible until they weren't. Between roughly 1250 and 1150 BCE, major ...

David Heath is a List Writer from the UK specializing in video games, movies, TV shows, and the occasional anime. Streaming services offer a variety of ancient history documentaries to fulfill the ...

From the death cults of Egypt to the fearsome yet sophisticated society of the Vikings, the ancient world was a surprising and challenging place. Explore the in-depth sections below. Discover more ...

Excavations of an ancient construction site in Pompeii have revealed the process of how Romans mixed their self-healing ...

New evidence and modern scans are bringing renewed attention to one of Egypt’s most mysterious and long-forgotten sites. Ancient accounts described a massive structure unlike anything else in the ...

The three ages of the ancient world — Stone, Bronze, and Iron — encompass the formative years of human history in most regions. Learn how we went from dwelling in caves to building civilizations over ...

From politics to the Oscars, the #MeToo movement is spotlighting the nature of women’s relationship to power. Why are traditional positions of power still closed to so many? How do women work within ...

Although we often romanticize the bare marble of ancient sculpture today, most of these specimens were in fact painted in bright shades of blue, red, yellow, brown and many other hues. Over the past ...

This mosaic featuring fish was likely laid down in A.D. 300 in what is now the Israeli town of Lod. Wikimedia Commons under Creative Commons Public Domain Mark 1.0 In 2017, archaeologist Yonatan Adler ...

Vanilla beans begin as the seedpods of a tropical orchid (left); Chocolate is made from the seeds hidden inside the fruit of the cacao tree (right). Florilegius / SSPL / Getty Images Of all the great ...