Zooarchaeologist Stella Nikolova examined dog remains from across Bulgaria’s Iron Age (roughly 5th–1st centuries BC). At Pistiros, she reported that nearly 20% of the examined dog bones had cut marks ...

Long before classical Greece, the Cycladic islands formed one of the earliest and most influential maritime cultures in the Mediterranean. This chapter traces their rise from Neolithic seafarers to ...

Perperikon, the ancient city of stone in the hills of Bulgaria, may have been the site where the temple of Dionysus was built.

SHARJAH, 29th January, 2026 (WAM) -- The archaeological discoveries in Sharjah, particularly at Mleiha, provide compelling ...

Director General of the Sharjah Archaeology Authority traces back Mleiha’s 3000-year-old trade and cultural links with Greece at the 10th anniversary edition of Xposure International Photography Festi ...

Still, the “board game” framing has a quiet strength: it’s testable. Scholars can compare wear patterns, spatial logic, and symbol clustering against known game-board behaviors, rather than betting ...

Darwin is home to the largest Kalymnian expat community in the world and my family is part of it. Last year, I travelled to ...

History is often taught as if progress moves in a straight line—from ancient Greece to Rome, from medieval Europe to the Renaissance, from industrialization to modernity. Africa, in this telling, ...

An ancient tomb uncovered in modern-day Turkey may be linked to a legendary ruler, archaeologists have revealed.

Following a year marked by growing interest in precious metals and the wider jewellery market, Apollo Art Auctions is ...

Professor of Sport Studies Amy Bass joins WIRED to answers the internet's burning questions about the history of the Olympics. When were the first olympics contested? How do the olympic games of ...

Did the Trojan War really happen? Scholars continue to debate this, but establishing the true chronology of the legend might be the solution.