On a low rise in southeastern Turkey, a ring of towering stones has quietly rewritten the story of civilization. Göbekli Tepe, a ritual complex dating back roughly 12,000 years, predates pottery, ...

Think about the grandest structures humans have ever built. Towering pyramids, sprawling road networks, elaborate bureaucracies governing millions of lives across continents. Empires always feel ...

A newly excavated archaeological site in central China is reshaping long-held assumptions about early hominin behavior in ...

Ancient tools from central China are flipping the script, revealing early humans were far more innovative than history once gave them credit for.

As for the statues long assumed to have been abandoned as they were being transported to the coastline to be displayed in ...