Excavations in the Nile Delta have revealed multi-story tower houses, a granary, a ceremonial building, and eye-catching ...

Excavations in Egypt's Nile Delta have revealed ancient Egyptian multistory "tower" houses, a ceremonial building dedicated ...

This submerged settlement, dating back as far as 2.5 million years to the Late Pleistocene period, has yielded not only evidence of its ancient inhabitants but also vital insights into early human ...

Hundreds of acres in Michigan are covered in parallel rows of earth that are the remains of an ancient Native American agricultural system. The surprise find has archaeologists amazed.

Christians would flock to the Cave of Salome in Israel to pay tribute to Jesus' midwife. But a new study contests the long-held belief that she was laid to rest there.

Remarking on the novelty of finding so much gold jewelry from this period in Jerusalem, Efrat Bocher, an excavation manager from Bar-Ilan University and the Center for the Study of Ancient ...

When he formally launched his political career in January, Carney said "this is no time for politics as usual." It remains to be seen how well that sense of the moment will survive contact with ...

Keeladi (Keezhadi), located just outside the more than 2,000-year-old great city of Madurai, has been accepted as a Sangam-era settlement. The Sangam period is widely believed to be the six ...

Three tombs dating back thousands of years have been unearthed in an ancient Egyptian burial complex. The tombs of three prominent statesmen from the New Kingdom era (1539 to 1077 BCE) have been ...

He lived from 551 B.C. to 479 B.C., during the Zhou dynasty and a period of great strife in ancient China. Confucianism teaches people to achieve perfection through kindness, righteousness, social ...

In Aké today, modern houses abut the remains of ancient ones, which now take the form of small mounds on the otherwise flat landscape. Many of the town’s men work in a crumbling factory ...

Scientists Found Evidence of Our Ancient Human Ancestors Underwater, Suggesting a Sunken World Some of the early hominins evidently went island hopping.