Native people have been occupying Arizona for thousands of years, but it wasn't until 1877 that Arizona's first city was ...

In Louisiana, hunter-gatherers of the Evans culture built Watson Brake, a massive complex of 11 mounds connected by ridges, ...

The oldest religious text in the world date back thousands of years, though many religions were initially passed on through spoken word. These religious texts are some of the oldest in human history.

Comedian and sex-worker rights advocate Kaytlin Bailey brings "The Oldest Profession" to Kingston. A sharp, funny, history-driven look at sex work and civil liberties.

As archaeologists slowly excavate this ancient statue from the earth, they are, in a sense, awakening a witness to humanity's earliest attempts to comprehend the cosmos and to communicate with the ...

After the collapse of the Chalcolithic culture around 3500 BCE, people in Jordan’s Murayghat transformed their way of life, shifting from domestic settlements to ritual landscapes filled with dolmens, ...

New research shows that the rise of Sumer was deeply tied to the tidal and sedimentary dynamics of ancient Mesopotamia. Early ...

DNA shines a light back into the past, showing us things that fossils can't. But how far back can that light extend? Some of the oldest DNA sequences come from mastodon and polar bear fossils about 50 ...

The extinct animal's face structure could help explain how vertebrates, including ourselves, evolved our distinctive look.

The largest and oldest crater on the moon did not form as we initially suspected, a new study suggests. The findings hint that a specific region of the lunar surface could be more scientifically ...