A new study shows ancient Egyptians made bronze stronger with speiss, changing what experts knew about early metalworking ...

Whether laced with viper venom, poison gas, or deadly pathogens—these weapons of war relied on nature's armory to slay the enemy. Poison in the woundThe Greek warrior Achilles treats Telephus’s ...

The past has never been more visible. While ancient ruins crumble under the weight of time, weather, and human activity, a ...

The first hydraulic telegraph was invented in the fourth century B.C.E. by a Hellenistic writer on the art of war, named Aeneas Tacticus.

After two decades of planning and construction delays, the Grand Egyptian Museum (GEM) a colossal, $1 billion facility, is finally opening ...

Research has identified the composite bow as the most lethal weapon of the Bronze Age, challenging long-held beliefs about its origins and transforming our understanding of ancient warfare. A new ...

Academics studying public toilets, grief in ancient Greece and gender cohesion in universities have won a slice of $376m in ­taxpayer funding for priority ­research.

More than six decades later, what has emerged is a military-narrational complex, in which war presents too good a story not to tell, over and over again. States, and now nonstate actors, have been ...

As business leaders gather in Riyadh this week for the Saudi-Greek Business Council, the timing could not be more fitting to ...

After the latest dig season, archaeologists announced a wealth of treasure surfaced from the popular tourist destination, ...

When rolled on a moist clay tablet, these engravings left low-relief markings, signifying that the object's owner authorized ...