A newly discovered settlement in the north-western Nile delta was built by the Egyptian New Kingdom perhaps 3500 years ago ...

In a cave overlooking the ocean on the southern coast of South Africa, archaeologists discovered thousands of stone tools, created by ancient humans roughly 20,000 years ago. By examining tiny details ...

In the first hour of "Connections with Evan Dawson" on April 9, 2025, author and translator Sarah Ruden joins us to discuss how translations can make historic works accessible to current society.

Cuneiform, the oldest identified writing system, defied deciphering – until 1857. What happened then makes a terrific read, ...

A trio of researchers from Bocconi University, in Italy, the University of Cambridge, in the U.K., and Stanford University, ...

The West’s Eurocentric version of scientific history omits some of the most important events that shaped modern thinking.

New archaeological finds in Malta add to an emerging theory that early Stone Age humans cruised the open seas.

Just steps from the center of Tikal, a 2,400-year-old Maya city in the heart of modern-day Guatemala, a global team of researchers including scholars from Brown University have unearthed a buried ...

Obsidian does not naturally occur in Alberta where the artifacts are being unearthed at Early Prehistoric archaeological sites.

While London boasts some of the most famous museums and art galleries in the world, the rest of the UK is blessed with so many other hubs of history, such as hyperlocal exhibitions, specialised ...

Ancient Greece has traditionally been periodized into five eras: the Bronze Age, Iron Age, Archaic Age, Classical Age, and ...