The trove of grave goods includes diadems and gold mouthpieces and show merchants on Cyprus were extremely well-connected ...

An international group of archaeologists utilizing satellite technology has uncovered 260 massive, 6,000 year old communal burial sites concealed throughout the scorching Atbai Desert of Eastern Sudan ...

Our modern financial world has evolved to include the use of credit cards, online banking, and Venmo. But centuries before any of these tools existed, ancient civilizations had their own way of ...

The ancient "enclosure burials" were built by a prehistoric nomadic empire that flourished just before the rise of the Egyptian Pharaohs.

When people ask why someone like me, an Egyptian, has spent so many years translating Chinese books, I could offer a tidy answer: I studied the language, lived in China, worked in publishing, and ...

For over four and a half millennia, the Great Pyramid of Khufu has loomed over the Giza Plateau, a megalith rising from ...

The Mycenaean civilization was the first advanced culture of mainland Greece, shaping the foundations of Greek identity, myth ...

For centuries, the Phoenician city-states survived conquest after conquest, bending but never quite breaking beneath the ...

From the Antikythera Mechanism to Roman concrete, these ancient inventions continue to surprise researchers today.1, 2, 3, 4 A 2,000-year-old analog computer ...

A groundbreaking archaeological discovery in West Africa is challenging long-held assumptions about early human adaptability and migration. Evidence from a site in Côte d'Ivoire reveals that Homo ...