A study of ancient DNA from Europeans between 1700 and 45,000 years ago suggests that 63 percent of them had dark skin.

Columella’s “own community” was the region of what is today Cádiz in Spain.

City of Perga on Turkey’s southwestern Mediterranean coast was renowned in ancient world for production of marble statues ...

Airborne particles from minting coins damaged health, a new study says, and might have contributed to the Roman Empire’s ...

Archaeologists from the Museum of London have discovered a well-preserved part of the ancient city of London ’s first Roman ...

Ancient DNA is telling us more and more about humans and environments long past. Could it also help rescue the future?

Pompeii only came under Roman control around 160 years before its destruction – and its traffic-worn streets show how the ...

Fast-forward two millennia and the paintwork has long since faded, giving rise to a range of colourless copycats that would ...

Inside the super-private Torlonia Collection of ancient marbles, and the strategy to clean them up and bring them back into ...

Archaeologists from the Museum of London have discovered a well-preserved part of the ancient city of London’s first Roman ...

Throughout history, humanity has faced numerous high-stakes moments that could have ended in total catastrophe. From nuclear ...

The museum dropped a legal effort to block the seizure of the statue by investigators who said the bronze, thought by some to ...