Pergamon: City of Science ... and Satan?

by Sarah Yeomans Perched atop a windswept mountain along the Turkish coastline and gazing proudly—almost defiantly—over the azure Aegean Sea...

White Europeans evolved only ‘5,500 years ago’

White Europeans could have evolved as recently as 5,500 years ago, according to research which suggests that the early humans who populated ...

The Mystery Behind the 5,000 Year Old Tarim Mummies

A Tarim Basin mummy photographed circa 1910 Photo: Aurel Stein The door creaked open, and there in the gloom of the newly opened room, perfe...

The text of the film “The fall of an empire—the Lesson of Byzantium”

Russian winter landscape. A church. A snowstorm. Narrator . Hello . In 1453, the Byzantine Empire fell. Let us now take a look at how ...

Riddle of Great Zimbabwe

by Roderick J. Mcintosh  Among the gold mines of the inland plains between the Limpopo and Zambezi rivers [there is a]...fortress built of s...

Fragment of world's oldest bible 'discovered in Egyptian monastery'

The Codex Sinaiticus, which appears to date from about AD350, is handwritten in Greek on animal skin and is the earliest known version of th...

Europe's first farmers replaced their Stone Age hunter-gatherer forerunners

Analysis of ancient DNA from skeletons suggests that Europe's first farmers were not the descendants of the people who settled the area ...

The ''Pyramid'' of Hellenikon

At the South-eastern edge of the plain of Argolid, near the springs of the Erasinos river (nowadays 'Kephalari') and on the main art...

Guatemala Mayan city may have ended in pyramid battle

By Sarah Grainger EL MIRADOR, Guatemala (Reuters) - One of Guatemala's greatest ancient Mayan cities may have died out in a bloody battl...