Buried for 4,500 years in Egypt's scorching sands, a ceramic pot preserved a laborer's skeleton that now upends long-held ...

One small artifact opened up a world of discovery of a Neolithic civilization with a remarkably advanced social structure.

In this Ancient Architects exclusive, we explore Mendiktepe — a newly revealed Pre‑Pottery Neolithic site in southeastern Turkey that may be older than both Göbekli Tepe and Karahan Tepe. Shockingly, ...

The DeKalb Area Women’s Center will offer a “The Lost Goddess Cultures of Old Europe” educational presentation for adults to ...

Evidence suggests ancient hunter-gatherers performed the first ever African cremation of a female sometime around 9,500 years ...

New DNA study of 777 genomes found across southern Europe and west Asia redirects the cradle of Indo-Europeans, sheds light ...

Known for centuries as heaven on earth in Chinese lore, Hangzhou stands as a living window into China's profound civilization ...

A reconstruction of the face of Avgi, a teenager who lived in Mesolithic Greece, around 7,000 BC, stuns viewers.

Museums have spent decades trying to make the distant past feel alive. Audiovisual shows, touch screens and digital displays ...

The city of Bolzano, in northern Italy, has many things of which it can boast. It has a scenic location, wedged into a narrow valley between the gray, craggy escarpments of the Dolomites. It has an ...

Editor's note: As China's civilization exploration project continues to deepen, stories of ordinary people discovering precious artifacts remind us that the roots of our 5,000-year civilization ...

The Zhengjiagou site in Xuanhua district, Zhangjiakou, North China's Hebei province. [Photo by Wang Xiao/ For chinadaily.com.cn] A discovery at the Zhengjiagou archaeology site in Hebei province is ...