Ancient island settlers may have mastered open-sea travel far earlier than long assumed, according to new scientific findings ...

The Indus Valley civilization, located in present-day Pakistan and India, went through four periods of intense drought, which ...

A 4,000-year-old burial site in Sudan contains the first evidence of a mysterious funeral ritual that could rewrite parts of ...

The National Museum in Damascus is one of the most significant cultural institutions in the Middle East. Its extensive ...

Shimao ruins, an important prehistoric site located in Northwest China's Shaanxi Province Photo: Courtesy of National ...

Around 8,000 years ago, many civilizations thrived on plains that are now submerged by the North and Baltic seas. Now, scientists from a variety of northern European research institutions are ...

Introduction: The man-made world / Stuart Piggott -- The first half-million years / Grahame Clark -- Roots in the soil / James Mellaart -- The birth of written history / M.E.L. Mallowan -- The rise of ...

The Fertile Crescent, a boomerang-shaped region spanning modern-day Middle Eastern countries, is considered the cradle of civilization and where farming first emerged. But little is known about how ...