Burned ruins, broken weapons, and hastily buried human remains confirm signs of a sudden, violent attack, challenging the ...

Biological warfare is nothing new. I wish I could point to a period where the use of poison arrows was noted, but this is something that dates back to truly ancient times.

The most feared weapons of the ancient world didn’t necessarily break the mold when it came to battlefield innovation. In some cases, these were perfectly in line with the weapons used by other ...

From tail-wagging agents of battle to divine deities, ancient Mesopotamia’s civilisations saw dogs as more than just pets.

It’s a paradox that the more humans have evolved and advanced, the better we’ve become at killing one another. Even in an age where we can inflict impersonal mass destruction with the push of a button ...

Ancient Weapons Throw Light on Humans' History of Violence. Published Sep 20, 2023 at 2:00 PM EDT. By . ... in peace and without war," the study said. Read more.

In ancient times, some Native American groups taught their children how to fight and hunt using miniature versions of popular projectile weapons, according to a new study. Over a thousand years ...

The ancient world is rife with chemical warfare. Chemical weapons have been used for millennia to burn, blind, suffocate, poison, or just plain irritate the enemy into submission. Fire Agents ...