Excavations on unpromising mounds in the Iraqi desert revealed Sumer’s earliest city. Surviving relics and a rebuilt temple have given experts more clues about the ancient metropolis of Eridu.

While the Paleolithic period involved a nomadic lifestyle and the invention of stone tools, the Neolithic period was ushered ...

The Olympic flame still burns brightly in Ancient Olympia in the Peloponnese, where the modern-day games have their Greek ...

In the heart of the Arizona desert lies Painted Rock—a site etched with centuries of Native American petroglyphs. These mysterious symbols tell stories of life, travel, and belief carved into stone.

The story of how Earth’s magnetic field once collapsed, solar radiation went wild, and humans adapted with prehistoric ...

Researchers reexamining fossils identified telltale marks made by human ancestors cutting meat from bones. The discovery ...

Online claims of "large underground structures" discovered under Egypt's famed pyramids of Giza are unfounded, experts in the ...

Early human communication networks revealed thanks to ancient stone tools and blades located in a South African cave.

The Alan Seeger Natural Area in Huntingdon, Pennsylvania might just be the Mother’s Day revelation you never knew you needed. When was the last time you gave Mom something she actually remembers past ...

A collection of Zimbabwean stone sculptures will be the centerpiece of an exhibition at Oxford University meant to “contextualize” the legacy of British colonialist Cecil John Rhodes ...

Archaeological excavations launched in 2022 in the Basilica of the Holy Sepulcher in Jerusalem have yielded significant data ...