Archaeologists have long puzzled over the severed heads found in Ancient Iberian Iron Age sites, displayed with nails driven ...

A small, wooden diorama found in an ancient Egyptian tomb reflects the importance of grain in an agricultural society.

In particular, two figures—the cinaedus and the gallus—provide examples of men whose effeminate behavior and modified ...

Archaeologists found that children in the Ebla Kingdom mass-produced pottery but also made their own creative figurines.

Archaeologists in Denmark have uncovered an "exceptionally rare" Roman-era helmet alongside a hoard of weapons, revealing ...

The Geometric Period is a lesser known era in history. However, it ushered ancient Greece from the Dark Age to the Classical ...

Welcome to the ancient agora, the original social media of the ancient Greeks, where people could argue about... everything!

Ancient Rome was a man’s world. In politics, society and the family, men held both the power and the purse-strings – they even decided whether a baby would live or die. Families were dominated ...