The ancient Greeks, who staged the first formal Olympic Games in 776 B.C., gave the world the idea of organized big-time sports events as entertainment for arenas full of spectators. More than that, ...

Ancient history contains many famous stories that have been repeated for centuries, but archaeological discoveries and ...

(2016.11.10)[This Week's Announcement]* 'Gomanism Manifesto'... On a recent NHK Educational TV program about female emperors ...

For millennia, ancient Egyptian doctors were trailblazers—and evidence detected on skulls suggests its doctors may have even attempted to treat cancer. Grab your fedora and bullwhip as we unearth ...

The Pyramids of Giza and the Great Sphinx might be Egypt’s superstars, but look beyond them and you’ll find intriguing myths, a warm modern-day culture and a very human side to ancient history—and ...

Past to Present is a series of five videos that explore ancient Egypt, Greece, Rome and China, created through a collaboration between ABC Education and the NSW Department of Education. The concept of ...

The three ages of the ancient world — Stone, Bronze, and Iron — encompass the formative years of human history in most regions. Learn how we went from dwelling in caves to building civilizations over ...

The first emperor 'Jimmu', 'Tenmu' who won the Jinshin War, and 'Shomu' who built the Great Buddha of Nara.While studying ...

God, King, Man won the 2026 Baillie Gifford Prize for nonfiction, becoming the first ancient-history book to take the award.

Although we often romanticize the bare marble of ancient sculpture today, most of these specimens were in fact painted in bright shades of blue, red, yellow, brown and many other hues. Over the past ...

Colors mean different things to different people across time and space, but the color red has remained an integral way of representing hate, love and luxury for millennia. In a new book on the history ...