Archaeologists in Iraq have discovered the remains of a 5,000-year-old building that might have been used as a "cultic space" ...

Without the scholars of the Islamic Golden Age, who translated Ancient Greek, it is likely that ancient knowledge would now ...

A facial reconstruction using a 3D scan of the skull Caroline Wilkinson / Liverpool John Moores University. During the third millennium B.C.E., a man was buried in a sealed ceramic pot in the Egyptian ...

Beneath the surface of present-day western Honduras lie the ruins of Copán—an archaeological site that once stood as a vital city in the classic Maya world, situated at the crossroads between Central ...

Each cargo load, despite being discovered in the same port, dated back to a different time period of the Iron Age.

Italian archaeologists recently gained rare insight into life during Ancient Rome when they found a multi-story apartment building built decades before the birth of Jesus Christ. The discovery was ...

Ancient China began as a group of isolated communities during the Stone Age and eventually grew into a formidable empire. Ancient Chinese people developed their own writing system and several famous ...

A total of 75 ancient tombs were unearthed in eastern China. Anhui Provincial Institute of Cultural Relics and Archaeology, Qianshan Cultural Relics Protection Center and the Qianshan Museum On a ...

Salt is an essential nutrient for the human body. But hundreds of millions of years before the first humans, salt minerals ...