Generations of creatives have looked back to ancient Egypt in their search for art and design inspiration—here are three ...

The history of clocks is a remarkable tale of human ingenuity and the pursuit of precision. Explore how ancient civilizations began measuring time and how this led to the creation of the first ...

Archaeologists uncovered an ancient lost city in North Macedonia that may be Lyncus, the capital of a once-thriving civilization conquered by King Philip II in 358 B.C.

Archaeologists unearthed a nearly 3,000-year-old Mayan city in Guatemala — complete with pyramids and mysterious monuments — that reveals new traces of the ancient civilization. The ancient ...

A newly uncovered ancient temple in the Bolivian Andes is offering archaeologists rare new insights into the Tiwanaku civilization, a once-powerful society that existed over a thousand years ago ...

Carvings on a 12,000-year-old monument in Turkey appear to mark solar days and years, making it possibly the oldest solar calendar in ancient civilization.

For 150 years, people have tried to decipher mysterious symbols written by an advanced civilization believed to rival ancient Egypt. Can a $1 million prize help crack the puzzle?

The logo-syllabic writing style is one of the earliest in civilized history, and translations of the ancient Babylonian tablets are essentially windows into the civilization’s commerce ...