Researchers uncovered a 2.75–2.44 million-year-old site in Kenya showing that early humans maintained stone tool traditions for nearly 300,000 years despite extreme climate swings. The tools, ...

When rolled on a moist clay tablet, these engravings left low-relief markings, signifying that the object's owner authorized ...

Ancient Greek kings used war elephants from Alexander to the Seleucids, shaping battles and empire-building across the ...

At the upcoming 27th Mediterranean Archaeological Tourism Exchange, scheduled from October 30 to November 2, 2025, in Paestum ...

We’ve all grown up hearing tales that started as “That couldn’t possibly be true…” and later morphed into “Wait — it was true ...

Groundbreaking discoveries at Egypt's Saqqara complex have revolutionized our understanding of ancient Egyptian engineering capabilities. Archaeologists have uncovered an extensive hydraulic system ...

The ancient Greek engineer Mandrocles of Samos is credited with creating the Pontoon Bridge, which spanned the Bosphorus Strait.

Archaeologists in Tajikistan have uncovered a remarkable 1,500-year-old water pipeline system perched atop a 65-meter hill at the Mugtepa settlement near Istaravshan. This extraordinary discovery ...

Archaeologists excavating the ancient city of Syedra in Turkey's Mediterranean region have uncovered a spectacular 1,800-year-old Roman stadium, revealing new insights into the sporting and cultural ...

For decades, theories have claimed that ancient alien bases lie buried beneath deserts, mountains, and oceans around the world. From the Pyramids of Giza to Antarctica’s ice shelves, mysterious ...

I read George Eliot’s “Middlemarch,” sometimes hailed as the greatest British novel, in a rain forest in western Indonesia. I was there as a graduate student, spending my days slogging through mud and ...

The writers of antiquity thought very little of the people who lived on the fringes of their own empires and had even less regard for the societies that existed beyond them. When the Roman poet Ovid ...