They fought the Egyptians, sacked Babylon, and built elaborate cities. Then the Hittites vanished. Today, new discoveries are ...

This 5,000-year-old tablet is believed to hold the world's first signature — and it's on a receipt for beer. Experts believe ...

The Phoenicians developed their ancient civilization with profits from the lucrative maritime trade of the Mediterranean.

wrote a scribe of ancient Sumer, portraying a dark time in the ... documenting 10,000 years of civilization that gave the world writing, mathematics and a host of technologies—from paved roads ...

Courtesy Farrar, Straus and Giroux Picture a map of the United States ... In his upcoming book How to Hide an Empire, Immerwahr sets out to tell the history of the Greater United States, what ...

When Roman Egypt came under attack from the Kushites in what is now Sudan, the Roman forces responded by destroying a Kushite city – or so we thought ...

On an Egyptian desert rock ridge west of Alexandria and between the Mediterranean sea and Lake Mariout is Kom el-Nugus, an ...

They found some Khamun ground. Archaeologists have discovered a 3,400-year-old town that was possibly erected by King ...

Dr Baskerville hoped the new lane name would keep Dongara's Sikh history alive. Sikh history advocate and event coordinator Tarun Preet Singh agreed, saying the event was important to Australia's ...

At Ancient Origins, we believe that one of the most important fields of knowledge we can pursue as human beings is our beginnings. And while some people may seem content with the story as it stands, ...