Archaeologists have uncovered evidence of a ritual-based site that may have been built long before the rise of Maya rulers ...

This video explores how ancient civilizations built things so advanced that even modern science cannot explain them. From ...

Although the Greeks and Romans linked environmental harm with climate change to a more limited extent than we do today, they ...

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When rolled on a moist clay tablet, these engravings left low-relief markings, signifying that the object's owner authorized ...

Ancient rocks reveal a potassium-40 deficit, the first physical evidence of the proto-Earth and insights into early planetary ...

New evidence says the Karnak Temple's first footprint rose on natural high ground that sat among ancient channels carved by ...

While excavating in the Valley of the Kings, an Egyptian worker on an archaeological dig discovered a partially obscured step ...

A Keio University team measured the cosmic microwave background temperature from 7 billion years ago at 5.13 K using ALMA, ...

New evidence is emerging in Kenya of early humans crafting stone tools for nearly 300,000 years during the Pliocene, despite ...