Children born with Down Syndrome 5,000 years ago were recognized as members of their communities, new research reveals. DNA analysis of ancient human remains identified six individuals with the ...

They are among the 269 children who were sacrificed and buried around A.D. 1450 at two sites near Chan Chan, the ancient capital of the Chimú people. Most of the victims were killed with a cut to ...

Dancers re-enact an old agricultural labourers' tradition for schools on Plough Monday.

Ancient Rome was a man’s world ... The paterfamilias had absolute rule over his household and children. If they angered him, he had the legal right to disown his children, sell them into ...

Alexander the Great had one legitimate child, a son named Alexander IV of Macedon. Alexander IV was born in 323 BC to ...

The remains of children buried together suggests an epidemic once went through the ancient community. Anne-Lise Le Bayon National Institute for Preventive Archaeological Research Lots of pottery ...

might help to provide a greater understanding of the significance of animal milk for the lives of ancient children." ...

Children also played with balls made from tied-up rags or a blown-up pig's bladder. A game of flicking nuts into a hole or circle may be the ancient Greek version of marbles or tiddlywinks!