Many of the 50,000 artifacts in the GEM were moved from the Egyptian Museum, a packed, century-old building in downtown Cairo ...

Long before municipal water treatment plants and chlorination, ancient societies faced the same essential challenge we ...

New research shows that the rise of Sumer was deeply tied to the tidal and sedimentary dynamics of ancient Mesopotamia. Early ...

Missouri State University archaeologists Daniel Pierce and Christopher Bodine are heading to Brazil to study ancient Amazonian geoglyphs that may reveal an unknown civilization.

Also known as the “Seven Sisters,” the striking cluster has long been used as an important seasonal marker and appears high ...

A study reveals that Sumer, the cradle of civilization, rose because of natural tidal irrigation that shaped the world’s ...

New research uncovers how ancient tides shaped the rise of Sumer. A newly released study questions established beliefs about ...

From desert carvings to underwater ruins, these ancient structures are so advanced that experts still can’t agree on what ...

In my research focused on early farmers of Europe, I have often wondered about a curious pattern through time: Farmers lived in large dense villages, then dispersed for centuries, then later formed ...