For more than a century, scientists have pieced together the story of how humans first reached North America through ancient ...

History Hit, the streaming service and podcast network founded by Dan Snow, has announced the release of its latest original documentary, Ancient Adventures: Libya, a 50-minute exploration of one of ...

Human history feels straightforward when seen in textbooks. A neat timeline with a clear rise from simple tools to complex cities. But archaeology keeps disturbing that picture slowly and quietly.

For decades, stories about the ancient Mediterranean have centred on the grand cultures of Greece, Rome, Phoenicia and Egypt. North-west Africa seldom enters the picture before the arrival of ...

Why is the Titanic falling apart while an ancient ship from the 5th century BCE is still preserved? Watch this fascinating history and archaeology documentary exploring the mystery behind shipwreck ...

Researchers from the Francis Crick Institute and Liverpool John Moores University (LJMU) have extracted and sequenced the oldest Egyptian DNA to date from an individual who lived around 4,500 to 4,800 ...

Nearly 2,000 years after a devastating volcanic eruption destroyed and entombed a thriving Roman city, researchers are turning to the novel technique of digital archaeology to reveal the “lost Pompeii ...

History is typically built from stories passed down through generations, recorded in religious texts, royal chronicles, and ancient manuscripts. But ...

From the air, you see it only through the constant jolt, tilt and shudder of the low-flying Cessna aircraft. The landscape of the Llanos de Moxos, northern Bolivia, appears as a disconnected patchwork ...

This has important implications for how we understand Africa's past. For too long, interpretations of the continent's history have underestimated the complexity and dynamism of its societies. By ...