Search results for Ancient History Facts

Facts About Chinese History That Make it the Craziest Civilization

Mind-Blowing Facts: History Overlaps That Don’t Feel Real

Mic Drop Moments From Ancient & Medieval History

Ancient Roman Technique Discovered 8,000 Years Earlier, Study Says

"A technology lost to history."ScienceAlert stories are written, fact-checked, and edited by humans, never generated by AI. Don't miss a story, subscribe here.

Archaeologists Discover Ancient Egyptian Mummy Buried with Pages from Homer’s Iliad: When Literature Guided Souls Throug...

Renaissance Europe admired ancient Rome, ancient Rome admired ancient Greece, and ancient Greece admired ancient Egypt. But the admiration could actually go both ways in that last...

In Athens, building the metro basically turned construction crews into time travelers. The project…

In Athens, building the metro basically turned construction crews into time travelers. The project...

These Things Were Invented Wayyyyy Earlier Than You Thought

Archaeologists Just Unearthed An Ancient Egyptian Mummy With A Papyrus Of ‘The Iliad’ Tucked Inside Its Wrapping

A papyrus found within the wrappings of an ancient Egyptian mummy contains a passage from Book 2 of The Iliad that lists the Greek ships sent out to fight in the Trojan War. The po...

Four Ancient Greek Mysteries Sparking Controversy To This Day

Ancient Greece is known across the globe for its vast contributions to the very foundations of our modern world. Western ideals, sometimes taken for granted, such as Democratic rul...

History They Never Taught You in School

Circular Mass Graves East of the Nile Are Rewriting Egypt’s Prehistory

Over 280 ancient mass graves have been discovered east of the Nile, and the monuments predate ancient Egypt.

Wind Farm Construction In England Has Turned Up Ancient Ruins Including A Roman Villa And A Neolithic Burial Mound

In addition to the villa and the burial mound, archaeologists uncovered a chair leg shaped like a lion's head and a serpentine vessel handle they've named "Norfolk Nessie." The pos...

This 2000-year-old coin collected as bus fare in the 1950s, turns out to be a rare artefact

Teen stumbles on mysterious coin from legendary city, puzzling archaeologists over its journey

A German teenager recently discovered an ancient Greek coin in Berlin, the first such find in the city, likely left as a grave offering at a Bronze Age cemetery.

How One Embarrassing Accident May Have Nearly Derailed Julius Caesar’s Rise to Power

In ancient Rome, superstition ruled over all—even Julius Caesar.

A 2,000-year-old stone maze discovered in India could change what we know about ancient Rome links

Even MORE Things We Can’t Explain

Try the Oldest Known Recipe For Toothpaste: From Ancient Egypt, Circa the 4th Century BC

Image of Ancient Egyptian Dentistry, via Wikimedia Commons When we assume that modern improvements are far superior to the practices of the ancients, we might do well to actually l...

110 Shocking, Weird, Or Extremely Fascinating Facts That Left Me 1,000,000% Stupefied

Ancient Romans used WHAT as laundry detergent?!?!View Entire Post ›

Facts of the Matter: Roman docdecahedra prove history isn’t fully complete

Across northern Europe, archaeologists have uncovered dozens of small bronze objects that seem oddly out of place in the ancient world. They look less like Roman artifacts than pro...

The Assyrians: The Civilization That Terrorized the Ancient World

Archaeologists Exploring Ancient Greek Ruins In Libya Just Uncovered More Than 100 Game Boards That’d Been Carved Right...

Found at the ruins of Ptolemais, these square boards marked with grooves in geometric patterns were likely used for games similar to checkers and tic-tac-toe. The post Archaeologis...

Inside Herculaneum, The Roman City That Was Destroyed Alongside Pompeii During The Eruption Of Vesuvius

The ruins of Herculaneum were discovered by accident in the early 18th century, and in the decades since, archaeologists have uncovered charred scrolls, wooden ships, and impeccabl...

These Three Ancient Civilizations Across Three Continents Built Similar Monuments. Were They Mapping The Stars?

A long-standing theory suggests that civilizations in Egypt, Cambodia, and Mexico built similar structures that aligned with a mysterious cosmic event that took place in 10500 B.C....