Recent excavations in Tajikistan's Zeravshan Valley uncovered an archaeological site dating back as far as 150,000 years, ...

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While ancient Greece is one of the best known cultures of antiquity, there are no surviving historical narratives covering ...

Researchers have used A.I. to create a 3D model of a centuries-old stone relief based on a photograph taken 134 years ago.

Scans of mummies at Chicago’s Field Museum of Natural History uncovered new details about how they were prepared for the afterlife and helped solve a baffling mystery.

Anthropologists have spent decades documenting a mysterious collection of symbols etched into the Peruvian desert, depicting everything from human decapitation and domesticated animals to ...