For decades, the grand narratives of Mesopotamia, Egypt, and the Indus Valley dominated the story of early human civilization ...

How did the islands of Southeast Asia become populated so early in human history? While researchers have long assumed that ...

Humankind's tangled shrub of ancestry now has a new branch: Researchers in the Philippines announced today that they have discovered a species of ancient ... “This new discovery made me thrilled ...

Finally, in 2008 — 27 years after its discovery — the Butuan gold went on display at the Ayala Museum, protected by an elite security force. And this year, Asia Society was able to bring the gold ...

A series of four new rooms unearthed in a family home in Pompeii in southern Italy have revealed how the ancient Roman city's middle class struggled to keep up their status. Gabriel Zuchtriegel ...

A new discovery of artifacts, recovered from a 2,000-year-old burial mound, shows off this little-known society’s sophistication and its deep connections to the ancient Silk Road. Featuring a ...

New research is changing the way that historians understand ancient farming culture ... archaeologists write about the discovery of a 5,000-year-old society in Morocco outside of the Nile Valley.

Archaeologists have announced the discovery of 5,000-year-old remains apparently belonging to a high-society woman from an ancient Peruvian civilization. The tomb was found in Aspero, an area in ...

In the Middle East, historical feuds, both real and reimagined, have unleashed atavistic conflicts, which threaten to tear the fabric of the world’s most ancient societies apart. In the Philippines ..

Ancient Egypt ... a groundbreaking discovery has shifted attention to an even earlier period in Egypt's history, revealing a society advanced in ways previously unimagined. Article continues ...

The ancient scholar Hippasus of Metapontum was punished with death for his discovery of irrational numbers—or at least that’s the legend. What actually happened in the fifth century B.C.E. is ...