Archaeologists have uncovered a remarkable Mycenaean boar tusk helmet near Pylos, shedding new light on elite warrior culture ...

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The galloping bronze horse unearthed in Wuwei captures the exuberant spirit of its age — speed, expansion, and the confidence of a frontier dynasty — at the very moment when the idea of China as a ...

Among the consequences of the rise and fall of empires in the last couple of centuries has been the formation, in the territories they formerly governed, of the political entities we call nations; ...

About 4600 years ago, the population of Britain was replaced by a people who brought Bell Beaker pottery with them. Now, ...

Meuse river delta resisted population shifts that transformed most of Europe — until they helped catalyse the expansion of ...

Gilgamesh, the builder-king of Uruk, and Achilles, the destroyer-prince of Phthia, represent the primal archetypes of the ...