Exploring vast desert landscapes has long been a formidable challenge for archaeologists. Shifting sands and immense scales ...

Around the world there are numerous ancient megastructures but perhaps pyramids capture our wonder the most. One of them has ...

New findings at Kurd Qaburstan, including clay tablets and monumental ruins, reveal insights into Middle Bronze Age life and ...

Tracing temple-studded coastlines and rivers that gave birth to epoch-shaping civilizations, these sailings reveal how the ...

The ancient artwork was uncovered during excavations at Pompeii in the 19th century. Now, researchers are conducting a long, intensive analysis Sonja Anderson Archaeologists think the tiles once ...

Phoenicia was an ancient civilization along the eastern Mediterranean coast, in the area of modern-day Lebanon, Syria and Israel, which existed from about 1500 to 300 B.C.E. Although historians ...

The Indus River, long revered as the cradle of ancient civilizations, has shifted its role in the modern world—now ...

Located in the coastal desert of Peru, the archaeological site of Chankillo dates back to the fourth century BCE. This ...

While the drive-thru window might seem like a pretty modern culinary invention, its roots may actually reach back much, much further than you'd expect.