This video challenges the conventional timeline of human history, pointing to sites like Göbekli Tepe—buried around 9600 BCE—as evidence of forgotten civilizations that predate agriculture, kingship, ...

Who were the mysterious Phaeacians of Homer's Odyssey, and where did they live? The evidence places the Phaeacians firmly on Corfu.

As the researchers compared sensilla and odontodes, they also arrived at another finding: One species, once considered to be an ancient fish, was actually an arthropod. Haridy’s original aim was ...

Unlike many rivers in other ancient civilizations, the Nile’s flooding was regular and predictable. This allowed the Egyptians to develop advanced agricultural techniques and a calendar based on the ...

The Milesian School was a branch of pre-Socratic philosophy founded in the sixth century BC in the Asia Minor town of Miletus. It produced three thinkers who were the pioneers of philosophy in ancient ...

Apr. 23, 2025 — Ancient DNA analysis challenges our understanding of the ancient Phoenician-Punic civilization. An international team of researchers analyzing genome-wide data from 210 ancient ...

Guest: Adam Shatz is the US editor of the London Review of Books and author of The Rebel’s Clinic: The Revolutionary Lives of Frantz Fanon. He is the host of the podcast Myself with Others.