In this Ancient Architects exclusive, we explore Mendiktepe — a newly revealed Pre‑Pottery Neolithic site in southeastern Turkey that may be older than both Göbekli Tepe and Karahan Tepe. Shockingly, ...

The Erechtheion, built in the 5th century BC, at the Acropolis of Athens. Athens is one of the six oldest Greek cities among ...

Yet the very system that made Angkor great eventually contributed to its downfall. Researchers determined that a period of ...

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Evidence suggests ancient hunter-gatherers performed the first ever African cremation of a female sometime around 9,500 years ...

The settlement enclosed by two circular rings held approximately 600 houses within the Baltinglass hillfort cluster, which ...

The oldest known cremation pyre in Africa is shedding light on the complex funeral rites of ancient hunter-gatherers 9,500 years ago.

The oldest previously known funeral pyre in the world was discovered in Alaska and dates to approximately 11,500 years ago, but that cremation involved a young child rather than an adult. Some burned ...

Scientists may have cracked the case of whether a seven-million-year-old fossil could walk upright. A new study found strong ...

Young Earth was a blue planet covered in oceans, much like today. But the atmosphere was a lethal cocktail of gases, with no ...

Understanding this crucial point in human history has focused on the Dmanisi Hominid Archaeological Site in Georgia where ...