Archaeologists on Thursday unveiled a 3,500-year-old city in Peru that likely served as a trading hub linking Pacific coast cultures with those in the Andes and Amazon, flourishing around the same ...

A temple bigger than a city block was hiding in plain sight for over 1,000 years.

Archaeologists have long thought that monumental architecture—large, human-built structures that emphasize visibility—were products of societies with power structures, including social hierarchy, ...

Excavations in the Nile Delta have revealed multi-story tower houses, a granary, a ceremonial building, and eye-catching ...

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Excavations in Egypt's Nile Delta have revealed ancient Egyptian multistory "tower" houses, a ceremonial building dedicated ...

Favorite Studies in ancient technology by Forbes, R. J. (Robert James), 1900-1973 Publication date 1993 Topics Technology -- History, Technology, Technique -- Histoire Publisher Leiden ; New York : ...

Humans are the only animal that lives in virtually every possible environment, from rainforests to deserts to tundra.This adaptability is a skill that long predates the modern age. According to a ...

Footprints found in an ancient streambed beneath gypsum dunes The footprints were discovered in a dried streambed, once part of a lake system that covered the White Sands area thousands of years ago.

The Temple of Solomon is one of the most often reimagined ancient buildings, even more so than the Tower of Babel. A detailed description in 1 Kings 7 provided the raw material for these imaginings, ...

PROVIDENCE, R.I. [Brown University] — A study led by researchers from Brown University finds that rainfall patterns across northern Africa remained largely stable between 3.5 and 2.5 million years ago ...

It lies at the heart of Chichen Itza in Mexico. A site of more than 20 ancient buildings, some of which date back as far as the sixth century AD. For many people, this is bucket list territory.