A new study reveals how ships guided ancient civilizations through crisis, helping regions trade, defend, and endure the ...

For centuries, hieroglyphs have helped historians piece together the beliefs, rituals, and everyday lives of ancient ...

One of history's biggest questions is: "How does an entire civilization disappear?" One can comprehend how an object or even a city is lost, buried, or destroyed, but an entire group or nation of ...

Across the globe, a race is under way to crack some of the last mysterious forms of writing that have never been translated.

A century ago, UChicago scholars argued a controversial idea: Western civilization had its roots in the ancient Middle East—not in Greece or Rome. Today, scholars at the OI and across the University ...

A Study Gallery of India and the Ancient World, trains its lens to the duration between the Harappan civilisation — which ...

When discussing the ancient world and how it impacts us today, there’s perpetually a massive tunic-clad and public-bathing elephant in the room: the Roman Empire. According to a recent social media ...