Archaeologists believe they have found the site where Alexander the Great and his forces fought the Battle of Granicus against the Persian Empire in Çanakkale, Turkey.

Thousands of years ago, a group of hunter-gatherers roamed the steppes of southern Russia, fishing in its rivers and hunting ...

A new study claims to have identified the first speakers of Indo-European language, which gave rise to English, Sanskrit and ...

Though Tehran scrambled to help the Assads face off the rebel assault, soldiers were turning on their own commanders ...

For decades, the leading theory for the ubiquity of Indo-European languages was that early farmers, living in a region known ...

Scientists say that the two lost, but extremely important books by Apollonius, the Greek mathematician known to the ancient ...

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A research team is investigating the influence of the Zagros Mountains on the bending of Earth's surface. A team of ...

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The tale of the ancient Greeks in Libya begins in 630 BC with a group of islanders from Thera, Santorini, establishing Cyrene.

He conquered land across three continents, ruled over states from Egypt to modern-day India, and never lost a battle – before ...

AN ANCIENT underground labyrinth city with its own advanced water system has been discovered after researchers stumbled across it in a garden. The sprawling network of twisting passages was found ...