Archaeologists on Thursday unveiled a 3,500-year-old city in Peru that likely served as a trading hub linking Pacific coast ...

Rice is difficult to grow in the Pacific, so how did it end up in a cave? Archaeologists reveal the hidden history of this ...

Forty years after the first effort to extract mummy DNA, researchers have finally generated a full genome sequence from an ...

Long overshadowed by its Egyptian neighbors, the Kingdom of Kush was a powerful and advanced African civilization that ruled ...

Are you as assured as Ashurbanipal about your knowledge of Mesopotamia, or as dim as Nimrud?

Earlier archeological evidence has shown trade links between Egypt and Mesopotamia, as well as similarities in pottery-making ...

More than 4,000 years ago, Egypt and Mesopotamia stood as two of the most complex societies on the planet. But the new DNA ...

Archaeologists have discovered the ruins of a large medieval cathedral in the subterranean citadel of Old Dongola, once the ...

The greatness that was Babylon : a survey of the ancient civilization of the Tigris-Euphrates Valley by Saggs, H. W. F Publication date 1988 Topics Civilization, Assyro-Babylonian Publisher London : ...

The Unreal Engine 5 game is set in ancient China during the final years of the Tang Dynasty. You play as a "nameless messenger and his young son" as they journey east across Asia "to deliver a ...

PROVIDENCE, R.I. [Brown University] — A study led by researchers from Brown University finds that rainfall patterns across northern Africa remained largely stable between 3.5 and 2.5 million years ago ...

It lies at the heart of Chichen Itza in Mexico. A site of more than 20 ancient buildings, some of which date back as far as the sixth century AD. For many people, this is bucket list territory.