Some disasters don’t just destroy cities—they reshape civilizations. From volcanic eruptions that blotted out the sun to ...

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

The “Ancient Aliens” theory has long been dismissed as fringe pseudoscience—but what if it’s not as impossible as it sounds?

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 ...

Historians are occasionally forced to revise their preconceived notions after discovering something hidden in the shadows and ...

Archaeologists have confirmed that Aguada Fénix, the largest and oldest known Maya monument, was designed as a massive cosmogram representing the Maya conception of the universe. New excavations at ...

The Balkans are where Europe gets wild, ancient, and breathtakingly unpredictable. This region, stretching from Slovenia’s ...

Egypt is inaugurating the Grand Egyptian Museum, the world's largest museum dedicated to its ancient civilization and an ...

Iraqi Prime Minister Mohammed Shia al-Sudani tells Newsweek his vision of making his country a global trade, investment and ...

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

Zhao Yingxin, the general planner of the exhibition, says photographs play an extremely significant role in the progress of civilization, as they record how civilizations move forward and develop.

AlUla cultural tourism is flourishing, with the ancient oasis city in Saudi Arabia recently securing three prestigious World ...