The first full ancient Egyptian genome reveals ancestry from both North Africa and Mesopotamia. The individual likely worked ...

The ancient streets of Varanasi show you how old stories live in every lane. People come here to see temples ghats markets ...

A few things on this planet are old enough to make history books look recent, and that includes some living trees that have ...

Researchers in the UK have extracted and sequenced the oldest Egyptian DNA to date from an individual who lived more than ...

Known as Peñico, the city is now open to tourists. It was once a vibrant urban center that connected coastal, mountain and ...

Researchers report that AI deciphered the Hammurabi tablet at 98% accuracy, opening the door to translating ancient cuneiform ...

An ancient rock engraving in the Lower Nile Valley may offer a rare glimpse into the origin of Egyptian kings. The art panel ...

Scientists thought this crater in Australia was the world’s oldest – but an independent analysis shows they might be off by ...

Peñico was established in 1800 B.C., just after the 5,000-year-old Caral civilization fell due to climate change.

Coastal Peru is on of 6 areas in the world where civilizations developed independently without outside influences, flourishing into an incredible society undertaking large scale building projects.

Ancient humans in Africa changed their behaviour in a major way 70,000 years ago, which could explain how their descendants ...

A traveling workshop of TAU's Orit Guardians program discovered two 15th-century Orit books—the oldest found to date in the ...