Sunken ships along the South China Sea revealed the rich trade networks of global trade between Asia, Africa, the Middle East ...

Ancient Greeks encoded the secrets of their civilization in ways hidden in plain sight, shaping a legacy that endures through ...

The ruins of a prehistoric skyscraper: New research is revealing how Cornish tin appears to have boosted a long-lost Bronze Age Mediterranean civilization. This aerial photo shows that civilization's ...

Around 8,000 years ago, many civilizations thrived on plains that are now submerged by the North and Baltic seas. Now, scientists from a variety of northern European research institutions are ...

This video explores how ancient civilizations built things so advanced that even modern science cannot explain them. From ...

Analysis of a massive wooden monument has uncovered new secrets of Cahokia, America’s greatest lost civilization.

This summer, the Shanghai Museum unveiled its latest blockbuster exhibition, “Legends of the Dragon: The Ancient Civilization of Hongshan Culture.” To date, it is the most comprehensive display of the ...

After the collapse of the Chalcolithic culture around 3500 BCE, people in Jordan’s Murayghat transformed their way of life, shifting from domestic settlements to ritual landscapes filled with dolmens, ...

Archaeologists unearthed a massive trove of gold coins in the Czech Republic, minted by a long-lost civilization — with the site described by officials as "exceptional." The discovery was announced by ...