The artificial plateau made from earth, with connecting causeways, canals and corridors, was built in southeastern Mexico ...

Archaeologists have uncovered evidence of a ritual-based site that may have been built long before the rise of Maya rulers ...

Archaeologists have recently proposed that the Gunung Padang site in Indonesia, long considered the world’s oldest pyramid, ...

Learn about the collection of ritualistic items unearthed at the largest and oldest known Maya monument, Aguada Fénix.

Archaeologists revealed how America's earliest civilization survived a deadly climate shift 4,200 years ago by relocating and ...

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

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

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 ...

The Elamite Empire, which dates back to 3200–539 BCE, is considered to be one of the oldest civilizations in the world, that ...

Carvings on a 12,000-year-old monument in Turkey appear to mark solar days and years, making it possibly the oldest solar calendar in ancient civilization. Marking a massive comet strike as the start, ...

NHK has learned that a Japan-based group that investigated ancient burial mounds in Bahrain found what could be one of the oldest known substances used as a cosmetic powder.