(Related: Rediscovering China’s ancient Tea Horse Road, a branch of the famous Silk Road.) Nuodeng, a former Tea Horse Trail town, has some of the best-preserved examples of traditional Bai ...

Archaeologists in West Texas have made an astonishing discovery which sheds light on the lives of prehistoric humans in America, Ancient Origins reported. Researchers with the Center for Big Bend ...

The earliest known depiction of a Phrygian cap was found in the ancient city of Persepolis in Iran, although it was popular with a wide variety of peoples, including the Persians, Dacians, Thracians, ...

Greek sources portrayed the Achaemenid kings, as indulgent and ruthless—all but Cyrus II. Why was this enemy ruler the only exception?

Archaeologists excavating the Church of the Holy Sepulchre, the ancient church in Jerusalem situated where Jesus Christ was crucified and buried, recently found evidence of ancient olive trees and ...

An ancient civilization on Mars was wiped out by a nuclear attack from another alien race. It might sound like the plot of a science fiction novel, but Harvard scientist Dr John Brandenburg ...

An altar from the Teotihuacan culture, at the pre-Hispanic heart of what became Mexico, was discovered in Tikal National Park in Guatemala, the center of Mayan culture, demonstrating the ...

Newly published research has revealed that compositional rock anomalies within oceanic plates caused by ancient tectonics influence the trajectory and speed of the plates as they plunge deep into ...

Terms of Service and Privacy Policy. The painting and artistry is not what sticks out to archeologists at a newly discovered ancient altar in Guatemala. The likely ...

After a century-long wait, an excavation has finally revealed the only ancient theatre on Greece's Ionian Islands. Ancient Lefkada’s theatre was first discovered in 1901, but it took until now ...

Ancient beliefs, behaviors and norms – what archaeologists call culture – were fundamentally integrated into technological solutions in this part of Peru in ancient times. Isolating and ...

By extracting ancient DNA from 13,000-year-old and 72,000-year-old fossils and merging it with that of modern gray wolves, scientists have created animals that look and behave like their long ...