The museum campus – the largest devoted to a single civilisation – took more than 20 years to build. Read more at ...

Many of the world’s most fascinating archaeological sites are overshadowed by their more famous neighbors, leaving countless ...

New research led by the British Museum has found evidence of the world’s oldest human fire-making activity in Barnham, ...

Archaeologists in Suffolk, UK uncovered a 400,000-year-old campfire, raising major questions about when early humans first ...

Making fire on demand was a milestone in the lives of our early ancestors. But the question of when that skill first arose ...

The Amarna Letters contain records of ancient lords and rulers seeking to establish diplomatic ties with Egyptian pharaohs.

If it were to melt completely, the vast West Antarctic Ice Sheet (WAIS) holds enough ice to raise the global sea levels by 4 ...

From ancient Rome to medieval Spain to Renaissance Venice, generations of mariners have relied on biscotti as a source of ...

Ancient Roman ideas of privacy differed radically from our own, and their communal toilets reveal a mindset almost impossible ...

When you look at the world’s oldest tourist sites, their survival often feels improbable. Many of these places were built ...

The ancient world was probably filled with magicians using science only a few understood, but the works of one man have ...

Ancient Chinese astronomers observed a solar eclipse in 709 BCE with remarkable detail. These old records are now helping ...