Melting ice in Siberia has revealed a remarkably well-preserved boot from the Saka culture, protected beneath the ice for ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. One of history's biggest questions is: "How does an entire civilization disappear?" One can comprehend how an object or even a ...

There’s a real fascination with nanoscale worlds that has always intrigued humans – the question is how much ancient societies were able to interact with microscopic forces prior to the advent of ...

Could an Egyptian pharaoh or a Chinese emperor have used a stiff drink or two to build their kingdoms? While we don't know the particulars of ancient leaders' drunken deeds, there's no question that ...

While the infants were not given individual graves, they were not discarded without care. The excavations revealed that the children were buried alongside simple grave goods. The archaeologists ...

What’s new in ancient languages and societies? For faculty in Yale’s Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations, quite a lot — driven by their dedication to continued research and ...

A new study has uncovered hidden social patterns in ancient Hebrew kingdoms by analyzing personal names from archaeological findings. Applying diversity statistics typically used in ecological studies ...

Ancient DNA from Stone Age burials in Turkey has finally put to rest a decades-long debate about whether the 9,000-year-old proto-city of Çatalhöyük was a matriarchal society. The research finally ...

Examination of an ancient alabaster vase in the Yale Peabody Museum’s Babylonian Collection has revealed traces of opiates, providing the clearest evidence to date of broad opium use in ancient ...

A new study reveals that democracy was not limited to ancient Greece, showing shared governance existed across ancient societies worldwide.

Ancient Societies In Mexico And South Asia Were Democratic Long Before Europe Claimed To Invent It In A Nutshell A major new study found that collective, democratic-style governance arose ...