Two recently discovered ancient gold rings set with garnets reveal how Greek trends and customs became part of life in ...

A network of trenches, walls and enclosures built across the steppes of China and Mongolia 800 years ago seems to have been ...

Archaeologists have excavated a medieval frontier garrison in Mongolia, suggesting some monumental walls on the Eurasian ...

New research brings together 7,000 years of history in South Arabia to show how ancient pastoralists changed placement and ...

An American long poem in three sections by Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Peter Balakian that moves between decades of ...

In an inventive, elliptical language, Peter Balakian's "New York Trilogy" explores one man’s journey from the late 1960s to ...

Stretching 4,000 miles, the East African Rift System is one of the largest in the world—and scientists just uncovered the ...

History Ziggurats were constructed by various Mesopotamian ... These monumental towers were religious centres, forming part of temple complexes between 3000 BCE and 500 BCE. The tradition was ...

In another strange turn tied to the sale of the iconic Ziggurat building, the U.S. General Services Administration canceled the high-profile online auction of the 92-acre property on Wednesday, ...

The archaeologists discovered the figurine in the Damjili Cave, which was first explored by archaeologists in 1953. Layers within the cave show a high density of Neolithic settlements, and trace life ...

The new investigation revealed that parts of the human genome change much faster than was previously known, laying the foundations for new insights into the roots of human disease and evolution. “It’s ...

This photo taken on April 8, 2025 shows a view of the Ziggurat of Ur in al-Nasiriyah, Iraq. The ancient city of Ur, which is famous for the Ziggurat of Ur built by Sumerians, is believed to be one ...