Hidden beneath a hill in Mexico lies the world’s largest pyramid by volume—the Great Pyramid of Cholula. Long thought to be a natural formation, new evidence reveals a complex built by unknown ...

Step into the birthplace of Western civilization with this immersive virtual tour of the Acropolis of Athens. Explore its ...

By Karen Taylor The famed silk roads, which connected ancient China to the rest of the world, were not so named until many ...

The discovery of the settlements over the years has led to a new understanding of the Asia Minor and Anatolia regions.

The chance rediscovery of the ancient Chinese Sanxingdui civilization is legendary in and of itself. In 1929, an unsuspecting peasant in Sichuan province stumbled upon a cache of jade relics while ...

Archaeologists also discovered the burial of a four-year-old child in close proximity to the woman. The child was crowned with a bronze diadem adorned with small rosettes and dates to the same time ...

The flying Apsaras dance across the heavens; caravan bells echo along ancient routes. Dunhuang, a pivotal hub on the ancient Silk Road, served as a crossroads where diverse civilizations converged, ...

Hong Kong is, after all, just a city, and if one identifies as a Hong Kong resident without the deeper identity as a Chinese, ...

Poverty Point, a 3,500-year-old earthen mound located in Louisiana, continues to puzzle archaeologists and historians.

A new radiocarbon study has clarified the timing of the colossal Thera eruption, placing it before Egypt’s New Kingdom.

Russian Yuri Knorozov cracked the previously undecipherable Maya code, and remarkably, did it long before he ever visited ...

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