On Sept. 27, 1822, French philologist Jean-François Champollion announced that he had deciphered ancient Egyptian ...

Carvings on a 12,000-year-old monument in Turkey appear to mark solar days and years, making it possibly the oldest solar ...

Missouri State University archaeologists Daniel Pierce and Christopher Bodine are heading to Brazil to study ancient ...

While much of Sogdian culture may be lost to time, some of their structures still stand, including the ruins of an ornate ...

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It’s a blast from the long-ago past. Archaeologists unearthed a nearly 3,000-year-old Mayan city in Guatemala — complete with pyramids and mysterious monuments — that reveals new traces of the ancient ...

This is a news report from China Daily: The Nile River, eternal and majestic, carves its path through endless desert ...

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Researchers made the new discoveries during field work at the Bronze Age site of Kurd Qaburstan. The research provides insights into regional heritage and fills gaps in knowledge about how ancient ...

The children exclaim: "Grandpa, it turns out our ancestors' treasures were hidden in our everyday lives all along!" As ...