The global launch of an upcoming exhibition at Shanghai Museum, On Top of the World Tree: Ancient Civilizations of the Americas, was held in Shanghai on May 8. [Gao Erqiang/China Daily] Shanghai ...

Animals maintain complex cultures, communication systems, infrastructure, and intergenerational knowledge, writes Ryan Huling ...

Researchers who analyzed genomes from early medieval graves in modern-day Germany hypothesize that people from the former ...

The tablets revealed writing on topics ranging from daily life to a list of kings.

Long-forgotten ancient tablets have been decoded, uncovering a mix of magic, politics, and daily life from early ...

At Ollantaytambo in Peru, enormous granite blocks weighing up to 80 tons remain scattered across mountainsides, valleys, and fields along the route from the quarry to the unfinished Sun Temple. Many ...

Scientists analyze 22,000 genomes documenting hundreds of genetic changes due to natural selection over the past 10,000 years ...

Excavations from 2015 to 2021 on the ancient site of Motza, just west of Jerusalem, revealed a sprawling settlement with some ...

Humans have been around for around 350,000 years, but it has only been a short time since they began to group together in what we call civilizations. In all of our history on this planet, humans have ...

Excerpted with permission from the publisher The Indus: Lost Civilizations, Andrew Robinson, published by‎ Macmillan, an ...

Mohenjo-Daro, which dates back to about 2500 BCE, was a carefully laid-out city. The element of water figured prominently in ...

The “cradle of civilization” may be turning into a dust bowl — and some Christians say the Bible saw it coming.