Did the Minoan writing system known as Linear A come from Egyptian hieroglyphics, or was it an independent invention?

While much of Sogdian culture may be lost to time, some of their structures still stand, including the ruins of an ornate ...

English archaeologist Jessica Rawson's book Life and Afterlife in Ancient China Photo: Courtesy of CITIC Press Group. In the ...

In the late 1800s archaeologists pinpointed the location of Taxila, one of the greatest religious and cultural sites on the ...

The idea was that high-powered lasers would propel tiny probes to 20 percent of the speed of light, impelling them with ...

A Yale-trained geologist has spent more than 30 years studying Egypt's Great Sphinx and come to a stunning new theory.

USF and FAU researchers identify bacterium behind 1,500-year-old pandemic mystery. For the first time, scientists have obtained direct genomic evidence of the bacterium responsible for the Plague of ...

Despite being known as masters of trade, these seafarers were never a single collective. Different groups built powerful ...

The Caral people viewed frogs as symbols of water and rainfall. At its height, the Caral civilization included an estimated 30 urban centers linked by trade, agriculture, fishing, and religious ...

How old is your food? Before food was a choice, it was a necessity — the bare minimum only eaten and endured in order to ...

In 2016 billionaire Yuri Milner hosted a press conference at One World Observatory, the atrium topping the slick skyscraper ...