Historians and divers are trying to retrieve prehistoric clues from beneath the waves—but they have to act fast.

Human instincts shape society, influencing power, inequality, and survival. Education can challenge these patterns.

Archaeologists have unearthed an extensive network of tunnels, challenging existing theories about ancient engineering ...

near the German border Sonja Anderson In the 1850s, cuneiform was just a series of baffling scratches on clay, waiting to spill the secrets of the ancient civilizations of Mesopotamia ...

Researchers have found dozens of human bones on the banks of the iconic river, many of them thousands of years old.

The Ancient Greek Dark Ages came after the powerful Mycenaean Era. But what actually were the Greek Dark Ages, and how did ...

Scientists studied the scents of ancient Egyptian mummies, revealing embalming materials and conservation effects.

A local government in India is offering a $1 million prize to the first person who cracks the code of an ancient script found in the ruins of one of the world’s earliest civilizations.

Sediment cores from the Aegean Sea reveal that human-driven lead contamination began 5,200 years ago—much earlier than expected. This pollution is tied to shifts in economy and land use, culminating ...

weren’t seas at all. Instead, they were vast plains that were home to ancient human civilizations. But as the curtain drew to a close on the last Ice Age, water levels rose and inundated these ...