Italian grape and wine domestication took 7,000 years. Seeds show a shift from wild to cultivated types. Sardinia played a key role early.

Summer courses are set to take students back in time to explore ancient civilizations and mythologies that continue to shape ...

The words of the Resistance and Liberation still call upon us today, as citizens and interpreters of our time. Eighty years ...

There's still a lot left to learn when it comes to ancient history, and scientists are still finding locations long since ...

In antiquity and now, inconsistency and illogicality lie at the heart of the human effort to imagine what happens when we're dead ...

To Ringbauer’s surprise, people from Mediterranean outposts of Phoenician culture—also known as Punic people—shared no ...

The Phoenician culture emerged in the Bronze Age city-states of the Levant, developing prominent innovations such as the ...

If you've ever wondered how farming spread far and wide, our research on past human societies offers one explanation: contact ...

Excavations on unpromising mounds in the Iraqi desert revealed Sumer’s earliest city. Surviving relics and a rebuilt temple ...

Archaeologists recently uncovered the remains of a lost city dating back thousands of years – and newfound evidence suggests ...

The inhabitants of Carthage were long thought to have derived from Levantine Phoenicians. But an eight-year study suggests ...