New scientific work is quietly redrawing the master timeline of ancient Egypt, shifting key dynasties and even the start of the New Kingdom by decades. By combining cutting edge radiocarbon analysis ...

Researchers on the hunt to settle a long-standing debate ended up rewriting the timeline of ancient human history in the process. For years, archaeologists have argued over an ancient culture with the ...

For decades, historians firmly believed the Maya were the oldest civilization in Mesoamerica until a 1938 jungle expedition rewrote history. Deep in the muddy swamplands of Veracruz, explorers ...

Traces of urine left by humans and domesticated animals who lived in central Turkey’s Aşıklı Höyük settlement some 10,000 years ago are helping archaeologists rewrite the timeline of early agriculture ...