The Indus Valley Civilization, one of the world's oldest, was a thriving society in what is now Pakistan and northwest India ...

Aside from their love of the sea, the ancient Greeks and Vikings shared much more that united them and divided them.

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The British Museum is well placed to refer to the discovery of the Library of Ashurbanipal as “one of the most important” ...

Archaeologists in Turkey discovered a Bronze Age loaf of bread in 2024, offering insight into ancient baking practices and ...

Ultimately, these 573 fortresses redefine what we know about northern China’s prehistory. Long before the first emperors ...

An isolated burial in Sudan has revealed the first evidence of an unknown funeral ritual that took place nearly 4,000 years ago in a little-known African kingdom, a new study finds. In the grave, ...

These murals come from new settlements that rose after the city of Caral, a major urban center in the Supe Valley, could no ...

Fresh research into the spectacular rock art of southwest Texas has revealed that ancient hunter-gatherers maintained a sophisticated belief system for more than four millennia, creating elaborate ...

Everyone knows about Yellowstone and the Grand Canyon, but did you know the U.S. is home to over 130 national monuments just ...

Archaeologist Shadia Abdrabo is working to create an online database of Sudan's archaeological sites and museum collections ...

Located in southwestern Colorado, Mesa Verde National Park is home to some of the oldest human dwellings in North America.