The most severe droughts in the ancient Eastern Mediterranean arose when multiple natural climate cycles coincided, according ...

A newly identified fossil ape from northern Egypt is reshaping ideas about where the ancestors of modern apes first emerged.

Maritime historian Nick Collins argues that the Indian subcontinent, not Mesopotamia, is the cradle of civilisation. Citing ...

The conventional narrative places Mesopotamia at the beginning of civilisation, followed by Egypt, Greece and Rome. India ...

Discussions of artificial intelligence typically begin with the question, What happens when the machines take our jobs? For ...

Ancient DNA from China’s vast 4,000-year-old Shimao settlement is revealing how one of East Asia’s earliest complex societies was organized. Researchers found that its people were largely descended ...

A British archaeological team recently announced the discovery of a rare Bronze Age sword during a dive off England's south ...

This video explores the Ziggurat of Ur, Dhi Qar Governorate, Iraq, one of the best-preserved monuments of ancient Mesopotamia ...

Cylinder seals were far more than ancient signatures. They fused art, power, and belief into objects that revealed exactly ...

The same force that paved the way for the Greek Golden Age sowed the seeds of its political collapse: individualism.

A clay tablet, hidden away in museum archives for decades, has revealed a remarkable story of daily life in ancient ...

Archaeologists in France have uncovered five rare iron shackles at a 2,300-year-old Celtic site in Allonnes, indicating the ...