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Matt DavisMesopotamia had Ur, a wealthy city from 2100 BCE and a towering ziggurat. Egypt had Memphis and Alexandria, with their great pyramids and...

Sarah Knapton,Ancient stone monuments may have been used for mysterious night-time ceremonies, archaeologists believe, after finding that some rock carvings only appear...

By Laura GeggelThe iconic smiley face may seem like a modern squiggle, but the discovery of a smiley face-like painting on an ancient piece...

Excavations led by a University of Tübingen archaeologist at the site of a recently-discovered Bronze Age settlement in the Kurdistan region of Iraq have...

by Noor Al-Samarrai If you had some threads that you wanted to spiff up for a special occasion in ancient Mesopotamia, what would you do?...

Observe the similarities of the Egyptian and Mesoamerican building styles...

Kerry SheridanMiami (AFP) - The discovery of a 400,000-year-old half skull in Portugal has offered tantalizing hints about a possible ancestor of the Neanderthals,...

By Elana GlowatzHuman skeletal remains found in an underwater cave in Mexico are about 13,000 years old, providing more evidence of early human...

Jhimli Mukherjee Pandey | May 29, 2016 | REPOSTEDKOLKATA: It may be time to rewrite history textbooks. Scientists from IIT-Kharagpur and Archaeological Survey of...

Here are some of the most amazing discoveries and space happenings of 2018.Oumuamua, Repeating Fast Radio Bursts, Neutrinos, Tabby's Star, Kepler and Dawn, TESS,...