As archaeologists slowly excavate this ancient statue from the earth, they are, in a sense, awakening a witness to humanity's earliest attempts to comprehend the cosmos and to communicate with the ...

For Assyrians in today's Iraq, this monumental event holds profound lessons and inspiration. The Egyptian example ...

Researchers uncovered a 2.75–2.44 million-year-old site in Kenya showing that early humans maintained stone tool traditions for nearly 300,000 years despite extreme climate swings. The tools, ...

After the collapse of the Chalcolithic culture around 3500 BCE, people in Jordan’s Murayghat transformed their way of life, shifting from domestic settlements to ritual landscapes filled with dolmens, ...

The Netherlands will return a 3,500-year-old sculpture to Egypt three years after the head turned up at an art fair and ...

The Grand Egyptian Museum spans an impressive 500,000 square meters, making it the world's largest archaeological facility dedicated to a single civilization. Housing more than 100,000 artifacts ...

Alcohol has been around for thousands of years. However, the style of fermentation has changed throughout the ages. These are the oldest alcohols in human history.

The exhibition, Visual Memories of the Three Ancient Civilizations, showcased some of the images ... "These cultures, among ...

New research reveals Sumer’s cities may have risen with the tides, rewriting the origin story of the world’s first ...

Native people have been occupying Arizona for thousands of years, but it wasn't until 1877 that Arizona's first city was ...

India’s history is undeniably ancient, with the Indus Valley Civilization, Vedic period, and later empires forming the ...

Archaeologists excavated hundreds of gold and silver coins in the Czech Republic they believe date back 2,500 years. The stash of coins features a mix of never-seen-before styles, some with animal ...