Archaeologists have recently proposed that the Gunung Padang site in Indonesia, long considered the world’s oldest pyramid, ...

New research shows that the rise of Sumer was deeply tied to the tidal and sedimentary dynamics of ancient Mesopotamia. Early ...

Long before the first sparks of civilization — or even humanity as we know it — our ancestors were already inventors. On the ...

Ancient Greek thinkers, from Hesiod to Plato, and later Rousseau saw in the noble savage a vision of lost divine harmony and ...

As archaeologists slowly excavate this ancient statue from the earth, they are, in a sense, awakening a witness to humanity's earliest attempts to comprehend the cosmos and to communicate with the ...

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 ...

We now have only the second high-quality genome from an ancient Denisovan human, which reveals there were more populations of ...

Italian archaeologists, working with Pakistan’s Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Directorate of Archaeology, have discovered eight new ...

Across Peru’s desert plains, AI is transforming how archaeologists find and interpret the Nazca Lines—turning faint traces ...

The Ancient Maya civilisation is celebrated not only for its remarkable achievements in art, architecture and astronomy but also for its sophisticated engagement with complex tropical environments.