Researchers have uncovered a vast and well-preserved network of ancient irrigation canals in the Eridu region of southern ...

The ancient city of Teos sits on the western coast of Türkiye, directly across the Aegean Sea from Athens. Today, it is ...

With more than 500 bridges crisscrossing the city of Philadelphia, they are an integral part of daily life. In a city defined by its rivers, bridges make possible the connections between people.

The tomb was empty, and the location of the mummy is in dispute.

Archaeologists have discovered a 2,600-year-old pot containing gold jewellery and statuettes of a family of gods at an ...

Clay figurines found on top of the remnants of a pyramid in what is now El Salvador might have been used in public ceremonies ...

The bone tools date from more than a million years before our species, Homo sapiens, arose around 300,000 years ago.

Archaeologists in Egypt have discovered a 2,600-year-old pot full of gold jewelry, including a rare statuette that depicts a ...

Deep in a trench in Tanzania, researchers found dozens of tools crafted from animal bones some 1.5 million years old.

Residents of an English town gathered on Tuesday (March 4) to play a traditional soccer game with a twist – there are ...

The elite women of ancient Greece and Rome regularly used cosmetics, a custom that was adopted from the ancient Egyptians.

Since the dawn of civilizations—and perhaps even earlier—humanity has had no choice but to reach agreements with its ...