The world’s oldest map of the night sky was amazingly accurate. Newly discovered fragments of 2,200-year-old star coordinates—once thought lost—reveal the incredible skill of the ancient ...

Given how contentious the idea is, the editor of this work has had to prepare the ground, establishing the importance of Lanka in the context of the ancient world, in the course throwing much light on ...

The Scythians played a pivotal role in the geopolitics of the ancient world. Their incursions into the Near East in the 7th century BCE reached as far as Palestine, shocking the Assyrian empire ...

The chestnut trees of Europe tell a hidden story charting the fortunes of ancient Rome and the legacy it left in the continent's forests.

Archaeologists uncover ancient settlement on Scotland’s Isle of Skye, ... suggesting that humans thrived at what was once considered the bleak and uninhabitable margin of the world during the final ...

Mentions of the critically endangered Yangtze finless porpoise in ancient Chinese poetry have revealed missing information about the habitat of the world’s only freshwater porpoise Almost 300 ...

Cuneiform tablets from ancient Mesopotamia cover a range of topics, from exorcising ghosts to uncovering the location of Noah’s Ark. Cuneiform tablet, c. 2nd–1st century B.C.E., Mesopotamia ...

Konstantin Borisov, Ph.D., a computer engineering specialist, claims in a recent journal article that the true location of the biblical Garden of Eden is beneath the Great Pyramid of Giza.

The People of Carthage Weren’t Who We Thought They Were. The Punic people had almost no genetic ties to Phoenicians, even though the latter founded the great city of Carthage.

Even amid Syria’s archaeological richness, Palmyra stands out, containing “the monumental ruins of a great city that was one of the most important cultural centers of the ancient world ...

Archaeologists recover rare Tlacotepehua artifacts from Tlayócoc cave, Mexico, thanks to a discovery by a local guide and a Russian speleologist.

Dr. Konstantin Borisov says the Garden of Eden was in Egypt, not Iraq — with the Tree of Life once standing where the Great Pyramid of Giza now rises.