Recent archaeological discoveries have unveiled ruins believed to be part of a civilization dating back 20,000 years, ...

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Tides, rivers, and shifting coasts shaped Sumer, the world’s first urban society - offering lessons for today’s climate ...

Archaeologists have made a startling discovery in Iraq with a potential to rewrite the known human history.Experts have found ...

A newly published study challenges long-held assumptions about the origins of urban civilization in ancient Mesopotamia, ...

The collection included some of the earliest examples of representational sculpture, a vase reputed to have the earliest known depiction of a religious ritual on it, and tablets that might have ...

By Taylor Nicioli, CNN With the thick vegetation of the northern Guatemala rainforests hiding its 2,000-year-old remnants, the full extent of the early Mayan way of life was once impossible to see ...

Laser technology has helped researchers discover a previously unknown 650-square-mile Maya site that offers startling new insights about ancient Mesoamericans and their civilization.

Over the years, Chinese archaeologists have uncovered new jade relics that may shed light on the dawn of Chinese civilization ...

World News Discovery of 'superhighways' suggests early Mayan civilization was more advanced than previously thought With the thick vegetation of the northern Guatemala rainforests hiding its 2,000 ...