An excavation at Oxford University has yielded ancient book clasps, medieval pens and imported fish bones, offering ...
It is clear that the sprawling city of Teotihuacan near Mexico City was a major metropolis of the ancient world, but what do ...
Literary readings were wildly popular in ancient Rome, so much so that they became a nuisance, says Tony Perrottet, a contributor to the magazine. Great authors “from Horace to Petronius and Seneca ...
In the year 79 AD, Mount Vesuvius erupted with a fury that buried the Roman towns of Pompeii and Herculaneum under layers of ash and pumice. Among the ruins of Herculaneum, archaeologists later ...
All present-day and ancient Mesoamericans belonged to haplogroups A2, B2, C1, D1, and D4. Black: Teotihuacan. Purple: Other Ancient Mesoamericans. Green: present-day Maya. Magenta: present-day Mazahua ...