Were the Hittites of the Bible the same as those of the Hittite Empire? While this is a common assumption, what do the facts ...

Ancient Greece was a land of gods, myths, altars, and temples that inspire books, films, and modern culture to this day. But ...

That is the mystery this article follows. Because if the Nephilim were part of the reason the old world was destroyed, then their story should have ended in Genesis 6. Yet the biblical record refuses ...

Have you ever wondered who is behind geometry's most fundamental truths? You guessed it: it is Euclid of Greece.

New research pushes the first genetic evidence of dogs back by 5,000 years and suggests that hunter-gatherer groups may have acquired dogs from one another. By Emily Anthes In the waning days of the ...

Erich von Däniken proposed that monumental structures such as the pyramids could have been built with help from aliens. Stefan Baumann Could ancient humans really have built the pyramids without ...

Could ancient humans really have built the pyramids without extraterrestrial help? Or do such questions reveal more about modern anxieties than the past itself? The idea that aliens assisted the ...

The Goths were a multi-ethnic society, according to a study of DNA from Gothic graves. The people buried there had ancestry from places as far afield as Scandinavia, modern-day Turkey and North Africa ...

Matt and Melissa Dunphy have developed a fascination with their city’s history hidden under the surface Lexi Lane is a weekend banking writer at PEOPLE. She first joined as a member of the PEOPLE App ...

“Little Foot” is the most complete Australopithecus fossil ever found. And now we finally have an idea of what this group of ancient hominins looked like Little Foot’s face, however, has long eluded ...

More than a century ago, a scratched-up slab of limestone was excavated in the modern-day Netherlands and later deemed an ancient Roman game board. Since then, the mysterious game has eluded ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I cover innovation across the food & beverage landscape. We have gotten so accustomed to the sea of ultra-processed products in ...