There is a huge variety of life on Earth, but we sometimes see similarities in organisms that live in very different areas and differ in all other ways. This can be due to a phenomenon called ...

When Alexander the Great died in Babylon in 323 BC, his vast empire immediately began to tear itself apart. Warlords ...

Almost 2,000 years ago, the ancient Roman city of Pompeii was buried by the volcanic eruption of Mount Vesuvius. Just over a ...

Archaeologists uncovered ancient rock paintings in Angola at Ndalambiri rockshelter, revealing 45,000 years of human history.

Make learning history fun by playing these interactive, fun and free-to-play history games from BBC Bitesize designed to test your history knowledge and skills. There are new and popular history games ...

Ancient Olympians were renowned for their strength and agility, but were any of these athletes women? And were there other sporting opportunities in which women in ancient Greece could compete? The ...

Keck Medicine of USC radiologists use computed tomography (CT) scanners to diagnose and treat patients' diseases and injuries. Recently, however, this advanced technology was put to a far more novel ...

This article originally appeared in The Conversation. If you were to visit a bookshop in the ancient world, what would it be like? You don’t just have to imagine it. The ancient Roman writer Aulus ...

Ancient scientists can be easy to dismiss. Greek philosopher Thales of Miletus, often described as the West’s first scientist, believed the whole Earth was suspended on water. Roman encyclopaedist ...

Humans have known about, thought about and worried about climate change for millennia. Since at least the fourth century BC, the ancient Greeks and Romans recognized that the climate changes over time ...

Explore the iconic villages of Santorini in a 3D virtual tour. From the whitewashed buildings of Oia to the cliffs of Fira, experience the charm and beauty of one of Greece’s top travel destinations.