For decades it was thought that the family system of the ancient Egyptians was very similar to our own. However, Ph.D. candidate Steffie van Gompel explains that the reality is somewhat different.

On the enamel of fossilized teeth lying in African soil for millions of years, scientists have discovered something small but possibly earth-shaking: tiny, uniform pits grouped in patterns too uniform ...

On the dark, chilly bottom of the sea off the coast of Ramatuelle, France, early in March 2025, a French Navy drone swept the silt with its sonar beam — a form, large and out of context, 2.5 kms (1.59 ...

Darius von Guttner Sporzynski for The ConversationFor two centuries, scholars have sparred over the roots of the Piasts, Poland’s first documented royal house, who reigned from the 10th to the 14th ce ...

About 6,200 years ago, in a village on the northern rim of the Persian Gulf, a young woman died after being struck on the head. She was probably younger than 20.

Before China's Neolithic Fujia community was arranging its deceased, it already possessed something unusual: a social structure organized not around fathers, but around mothers.Chinese researchers hav ...

Conor Trainor for The ConversationBefore artificial sweeteners, people satisfied their cravings for sweetness with natural products, including honey or dried fruit.

AD 312, the fate of the future of the Roman world was decided near the Pons Milvius, the Milvian Bridge (the modern Ponte ...

At some point between stone crashing on stone and the murmur of words by a Paleolithic fire, something shifted.In a brand new study, a multidisciplinary group of researchers has mapped the deep prehis ...

“Sing, O muse, of the rage of Achilles, son of Peleus, that brought countless ills upon the Achaeans” (Iliad, Robert Fagles’ translation). So, Agamemnon snatches Briseis, the desirable war trophy of ...

Researchers have identified a shipwreck off Porkkala in the Gulf of Finland as the warship Falken. The 17th-century ship was built for King Gustav II Adolf and was later used under Queen Kristina.

At Ancient Origins, we believe that one of the most important fields of knowledge we can pursue as human beings is our beginnings. And while some people may seem content with the story as it stands, ...