Over 70 historians and scholars who study the ancient world from around the nation gathered at the University of Iowa April ...

The work demonstrates the power of ancient DNA to illuminate human biology and medicine in addition to history. A massive ...

Studying ancient history means encountering some unsettling traditions. For me, that included learning about “sunjang,” a ...

No other ancient historian has written a book so insightful on the mechanisms of war as Thucydides' History of the Peloponnesian War.

From politics to the Oscars, the #MeToo movement is spotlighting the nature of women’s relationship to power. Why are traditional positions of power still closed to so many? How do women work within ...

Although we often romanticize the bare marble of ancient sculpture today, most of these specimens were in fact painted in bright shades of blue, red, yellow, brown and many other hues. Over the past ...

Egypt provides a privileged setting for the study of population genetics as a result of its long and involved population history. Owing to its rich natural resources and strategic location on the ...

P ity the poor Homo sapiens. In the great museums of the future, the display on their lives ca. 2024 will surely be among the least impressive. Picture them now, hunched over their little laminate ...

Colors mean different things to different people across time and space, but the color red has remained an integral way of representing hate, love and luxury for millennia. In a new book on the history ...