A team from Heidelberg University excavating in Iraq made a spectacular find: In the throne room of the North Palace of King Ashurbanipal in the ancient city of Nineveh, the archaeologists discovered ...

Marianne Ham Eriksen/The ConversationPregnant women wielding swords and wearing martial helmets, foetuses set to avenge their fathers – and a harsh world where not all newborns were born free or given ...

Beneath the ancient Maya city of Dos Pilas in northern Guatemala, archaeologists recently made a grim discovery that reveals the lengths the Maya would go to in order to curry the favor of the gods at ...

A team of archaeologists and scientists led by Karen Hardy, Professor of Prehistoric Archaeology at the University of Glasgow, has discovered evidence for one of the earliest human populations yet kno ...

The most famous of all the predatory dinosaurs, Tyrannosaurus rex, likely evolved in a different part of the world than its ...

Long before modern humans arrived in Europe, early members of the human family tree were engineering wooden spears to hunt prey along the shores of an ancient lake in central Germany.

For centuries, scholars have been fascinated by the way the Parthenon, the crown jewel of Athens’ Acropolis, was illuminated, especially given the stories of how the massive statue of Athena Parthenos ...

A groundbreaking new study has conclusively shown that southwest Britain was a major supplier of tin to Bronze Age ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready ...

At Ancient Origins, we believe that one of the most important fields of knowledge we can pursue as human beings is our beginnings. And while some people may seem content with the story as it stands, ...