Shimao ruins, an important prehistoric site located in Northwest China's Shaanxi Province Photo: Courtesy of National ...

Have you ever wondered what it felt like to walk through the bustling markets of ancient Rome or stand beneath the towering ...

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A 3,500-year-old clay tablet depicting the city of Nippur offers a glimpse into ancient cartography, challenging our ...

As Greece builds to accommodate a rise in tourism and other development projects, unearthed antiquities complicate progress.

The so-called Gaza ceasefire was not a genuine cessation of hostility, but a strategic, cynical shift in the Israeli genocide and ongoing campaign of destruction. Starting on October 10, the first day ...

The Giza Pyramids are among the best documented construction projects of the ancient world, yet a stubborn slice of popular ...

Plato used Atlantis as a foil to praise ancient Athens, showing that moral integrity trumps military might and wealth. The ...

Obviously, “racism” is the made-up word here. It is nowhere attested before the 20th century, because no one had ever ...

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 ...

Hunter-gatherers at Poverty Point may have built its massive earthworks not under the command of chiefs, but as part of a ...

New study uncovers the forces that shaped and later brought down ancient urban centers, and shows how these patterns are ...