Archaeologists have recently proposed that the Gunung Padang site in Indonesia, long considered the world’s oldest pyramid, ...

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 ...

Ancient Greeks encoded the secrets of their civilization in ways hidden in plain sight, shaping a legacy that endures through ...

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

Ancient Greek thinkers, from Hesiod to Plato, and later Rousseau saw in the noble savage a vision of lost divine harmony and ...

Around 8,000 years ago, many civilizations thrived on plains that are now submerged by the North and Baltic seas. Now, scientists from a variety of northern European research institutions are ...

Research shows that ancient tides shaped the rise of Sumer, the world’s first civilization. Shifting deltas and tidal rhythms ...