Some households in Pompeii burned incense that likely came from Asian or African forests, connected via a global trade network, according to a new study. The Roman city was buried under volcanic ash ...

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Ancient Lydia holds the distinction of creating the first coins in the world; they soon evolved into beautiful works of art.

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The math doesn’t add up—and new evidence suggests humans were crossing open oceans tens of thousands of years earlier than we ...

A research team led by Koji Ishiya of Kanazawa University reconstructed exceptionally high-coverage genomes from two ancient ...

This video shows the historic center of Bukhara, Uzbekistan, featuring the famous Po-i-Kalyan Complex, where towering ...

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Dunhuang, Buddhism, and the Silk Road this September, bringing life-size reproductions of the Mogao Caves and original works ...

For generations, the history of silk has been told in a fairly straightforward way. Domesticated silkworms emerged in ancient ...

On a trip along the Silk Road, columnist Annalee Newitz discovers that ancient technology can offer us a framework for our own advances. The most important drivers of technology aren’t inventions or ...