While civilization dates back tens of thousands of years, these are some of the earliest known (and confirmed) rulers.

A groundbreaking archaeological study has revealed the first and only known instance of systematic human bone modification in Neolithic China, challenging our understanding of ancient Chinese mortuary ...

Missouri State University archaeologists Daniel Pierce and Christopher Bodine are heading to Brazil to study ancient ...

On Sept. 27, 1822, French philologist Jean-François Champollion announced that he had deciphered ancient Egyptian ...

manuscripts at the National Museum of Iraq and the nearby National Library were created over 9,000 years of human history -- art and ideas from some of the world’s earliest villages and cultures. But ...

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Ancient “technologies” that still have scientists baffled Ancient civilizations demonstrated remarkable ingenuity in solving ...

(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. But laser ...

Anthropologist Margaret Mead said the first sign of civilization in an ancient culture is a femur that had been broken and then healed. She theorized that in the animal kingdom, if you break your leg, ...