Historians and divers are trying to retrieve prehistoric clues from beneath the waves—but they have to act fast.

I was aware that large-ish human settlements existed before even the ancient Sumerian city-states, but I assumed that they were a smaller version / warm-up act for the coming age of empires.

Archaeologists found evidence of a permanent Indigenous settlement in Canada dating back 11,000 years, rewriting America's ...

Hidden beneath the sands of Kuwait lie the stories and secrets of ancient civilizations, offering a glimpse into the ...

Their research, detailed in a January 8 study published in the journal Antiquity, could provide insight into the growth and urbanization patterns of ancient settlements worldwide. “The use of ...

Photo from Xavier Sicart Chavarría via INAH Hidden beneath the rainforest of southern Mexico sit the ruins of a massive ancient Maya settlement. Archaeologists knew of the site since the 1980s ...

Archaeologists have discovered 4,800-year-old relics in the earliest known lakeside settlement in Tibet, officially the Xizang Autonomous Region of China, dating back thousands of years. The site, ...