A prehistoric site in Jiangsu, China, sheds new light on early life around Taihu Lake and helps trace the roots of the ...

Archaeologists revealed how America's earliest civilization survived a deadly climate shift 4,200 years ago by relocating and ...

Unraveling the mysteries of lost civilizations is a fascinating endeavor that combines the thrill of discovery with the ...

New research suggests that the holes were the site of an ancient marketplace, and Inca rulers may have used them as a ...

(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 ...

For a long time, archaeologists believed that large buildings required large bosses. The idea was simple: only societies with ...

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 ...

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, ...