No one knows the exact dates when various ancient civilizations figured out the importance of seed corn. The idea that you do ...

History is filled with powerful empires that seemed invincible until they weren't. Between roughly 1250 and 1150 BCE, major ...

Ever wonder what secrets lie beneath the stones of ancient ruins? There’s something almost magical about standing where ...

A series of major archaeological discoveries at the Wuwangdun tomb in Huainan, East China's Anhui Province, is shedding new ...

Excavations carried out across Türkiye in 2025 produced an exceptional range of archaeological finds, from humanity’s ...

This legacy is preserved in the Qiuci Grottoes murals, where dance scenes appear alongside Buddhist stories. However, extensive looting by foreign expeditions in the late 19th and early 20th centuries ...

From Nordic lullabies to Grimm’s fairytales, the wolf has always haunted the edges of human history. Even today, wolves would ...

If someone told you it rained fish once upon a time, would you believe them? You'd be forgiven if you said "no." But get this ...

Over a century ago, anthropologist Raymond Dart chipped an ancient skull out of some rock from an ancient quarry — and revealed the face of an ancient human relative.

The textbook version of the "Out of Africa" hypothesis holds that the first human species to leave the continent around 1.8 ...

With new translations from the long-extinct Hittite language, UChicago Ph.D. student Naomi Harris brought verses from clay ...

The Halafian culture of northern Mesopotamia arranged floral depictions on pottery with symmetry and numerical sequences, ...