New research uncovers how ancient tides shaped the rise of Sumer. A newly released study questions established beliefs about how urban civilization first emerged in ancient Mesopotamia, proposing that ...

The Caral-Supe Civilization: Ancient Innovators of Peru The Caral-Supe civilization, one of the oldest known cultures in the ...

Cakes have come a long way in human history. Especially when you consider that the classic dessert has evolved over thousands ...

The extinct animal's face structure could help explain how vertebrates, including ourselves, evolved our distinctive look.

Archaeologists have discovered a 3,500-year-old military fortress with a zigzag-style wall in the north Sinai Desert of Egypt ...

The team looked for an explanation as to why the myth involved a seventh bright star, visible to the naked eye. Running ...

When we picture the history of money, many imagine barter leading naturally to coins, then paper bills, then cards and digital balances. But new research led by University at Albany Anthropology ...

Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story: 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 ...

Ocara-Açu, a vast precolonial Amazon settlement, underlies the modern-day city of Santarém in Brazil, once serving as the core of a regional network that may have housed up to 60,000 people before the ...

Bronzetti of the Uta-Abini style from Sardinia. (a) Abini-Teti, (b–e) Monte Arcosu-Uta; images not to scale (photos: HW Nørgaard, D Berger). Article title: Multiproxy analysis unwraps origin and ...

Archaeologists in Israel have uncovered a 1,600-year-old Christian care facility for the elderly – a remarkable find that may be the world’s oldest nursing home. The news, reported by Israel’s news ...

Genetic-sequencing techniques have uncovered the oldest host-associated microbial DNA ever recorded — inside samples of teeth and bones from woolly and steppe mammoths. An analysis of the bones and ...