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 ...

In two of the most forbidding landscapes on Earth—the Empty Quarter of the Arabian Peninsula and the Nazca Desert of ...

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

So, he sank a trial trench into what the locals called Mohenjo Daro, “the Mound of the Dead Men”. Within days he pulled out square steatite seals bearing a horned figure seated in yoga posture and an ...

The historical and archeological record upends the widespread belief that long-term incarceration belongs to the modern state ...

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 ...

At the crossroads of ancient history and modernity, a project has been completed in Tashkent that is being described by some ...

The origins of ancient Greek city names like Athens and Olympia reflect mythology, history, and the development of Greek ...