Scientists were amazed to discover a 507-year-old clam that was already 100 in Shakespeare’s day, but why did it live so long ...

The discovery of the settlements over the years has led to a new understanding of the Asia Minor and Anatolia regions.

The chance rediscovery of the ancient Chinese Sanxingdui civilization is legendary in and of itself. In 1929, an unsuspecting peasant in Sichuan province stumbled upon a cache of jade relics while ...

Australia’s first people arrived more than 60,000 years ago, crossing open seas long before any known civilization mastered ocean navigation. They survived megafauna, volcanic eruptions, ...

They came up a little short. A small archaic hominid known as the “hobbit” might have died out around 50,000 years ago after ...

The British Museum is well placed to refer to the discovery of the Library of Ashurbanipal as “one of the most important” ...

Archaeological evidence from sites like Madjedbebe suggested an arrival date of approximately 65,000 years ago, while genetic analyses consistently pointed to a much more recent timeframe of 47,000 to ...

A series of severe, decades-long droughts ushered the end of the Indus Valley Civilization, one of the world's oldest ...

According to National Geographic, the map depicts distances between gates in the wall surrounding the Mesopotamian city of Nippur, but for decades experts questioned its accuracy. The locations of ...

When we think of exhibits of ancient civilizations, our minds inevitably turn to ancient Mesopotamians, Egyptians, Greeks or Romans. While these associations are understandable, they reflect a ...

The world’s oldest known medieval Judaica relic is now its most valuable, too The 12th-century Kiddush cup, which sheds light on the little-known Jewish community of eastern Khorasan, went for $4 ...

Humans reached, settled, and thrived on Mindoro and other Philippine islands far earlier than most scientific timelines for allow for the evolution of human civilization. These people did not wait for ...