Astronomers are set to reveal the 50,000-year-old ancient civilization said to have lived on the Moon - a discovery allegedly ...

Carvings on a 12,000-year-old monument in Turkey appear to mark solar days and years, making it possibly the oldest solar ...

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 ...

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Beneath the deserts of Sindh lies Mohenjo Daro, a 4,000-year-old city of the Indus Valley Civilization. Once home to tens of thousands, its ruins reveal a world far ahead of its time.

It’s a blast from the long-ago past. Archaeologists unearthed a nearly 3,000-year-old Mayan city in Guatemala — complete with pyramids and mysterious monuments — that reveals new traces of the ancient ...

Ancient Egyptian civilization is like a "mummy" of humanity. From the vital knowledge inscribed on its temples to the ...

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

From Plato to Proclus, Athens was regarded as the epicenter of many ancient Greek philosophers' vibrant intellectual lives.

Archaeologists in ancient city of Nineveh, Iraq have uncovered colossal lamassu statues and intricate reliefs from an ...