History is constantly changing as new discoveries challenge long-held assumptions about the ancient world. From mysterious ...
The Euphrates River fueled the "cradle of civilization," and a new study reveals the waterway was born of two other ancient ...
Somewhere beneath the flatlands of southwestern Illinois, just a short drive from modern St. Louis, lie the traces of a city ...
A new study argues the Indus Civilization may have been the most egalitarian society in the ancient world—but scholars are ...
Our modern financial world has evolved to include the use of credit cards, online banking, and Venmo. But centuries before ...
Archaeological discoveries in Henan province, from ancient bone flutes to silk artifacts and dragon imagery, trace the roots ...
An international team of archaeologists has uncovered 260 massive burial sites in the Atbai Desert, Eastern Sudan, using ...
The Mycenaean civilization was the first advanced culture of mainland Greece, shaping the foundations of Greek identity, myth ...
Iconography depicting the graphic murder of humans in front of deities has been uncovered from numerous ancient (and sometimes not so ancient) cultures across the globe. Sacrificial rites were often ...