The mysterious Harappan civilization is considered the third oldest in the ancient East after that of Egypt and Mesopotamia.

A study by Ali Vahdati and his colleagues, Raffaele Biscone, Roberto Dan, and Marie-Claude Trémouille analyzed the remains ...

Explore the greatest and most influential empires in world history, spanning over 45 centuries of civilization. In this first ...

From Mesopotamia to Mesoamerica, the world’s great civilizations seem to love a specific range of heat. Is it coincidence—or climate logic?

Archaeologists have uncovered rare artifacts from the Paleolithic era at Ulukoy Cave in Türkiye’s southeastern Mardin province, revealing the earliest known evidence of human activity in northern ...

In a long-sought first, researchers have sequenced the entire genome of an ancient Egyptian person, revealing unprecedented ...

Joe Rogan slammed ancient Egyptian researchers for suppressing 30,000 years of history in a wild interview with fellow ...

Summary Mesopotamia is considered the cradle of Western civilization, and the diverse societies that flourished there, nestled around the Tigris and Euphrates rivers, were as culturally rich as this ...

Mesopotamia: Civilization Begins presents a rich panorama of ancient Mesopotamia's history, from its earliest prehistoric cultures to its conquest by Alexander the Great in 331 BCE.

Two hundred years ago, the son of a saddler from a rural French village devised a groundbreaking tactile writing method of ...

Forty years after the first effort to extract mummy DNA, researchers have finally generated a full genome sequence from an ancient Egyptian, who lived when the earliest pyramids were built ...

Just when you think this country cannot surprise you anymore, it does. Just when you begin to believe you’ve grown numb to ...