A new study published in the Journal of World Prehistory reveals that some of humanity's earliest artistic representations of ...

JERUSALEM, Dec. 10 (Xinhua) -- Israeli researchers have revealed botanical art created over 8,000 years ago by early farming communities in northern Mesopotamia, which features distinct mathematical ...

A new study reveals that the Halafian culture of northern Mesopotamia (c. 6200–5500 BCE) produced the earliest systematic ...

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

MARDIN, Türkiye, Dec. 8 (Xinhua) -- The southeastern Turkish province of Mardin is seeking closer cooperation with China in tourism and culture, its governor said, highlighting the region's security, ...

New research suggests that climate change may have played a decisive role in the collapse of the long lost Indus Valley civilisation.

Learn more about the Pyramids of Giza, who they were built for, and the possible methods used to complete them.

A new book argues that civilizations built on centralized wealth and power contain the seeds of their own destruction.

The sinking of Tehran – figurative and literal – could trigger migration and instability far beyond the country's borders ...

It's a story that almost any Christian would be instantly familiar with. According to the Bible, Adam and Eve were the first man and woman on Earth. Said to be made out of dust and to have lived in ...

A breakthrough study claims to have solved the centuries-old mystery of why the Indus Valley Civilisation fell.

For the past 6,000 years, humans have cultivated poppy flowers, including Papaver somniferum, which is one of several species ...