Halafian pottery shows that early agricultural societies practiced advanced mathematical thinking through plant-based art long before writing.

Known as a kore, this 2,500 year-old-statue is a fusion of ancient aesthetics and a symbol of cultural exchange between the ...

The iconic Homo erectus fossil was welcomed home with a repatriation ceremony and a new museum exhibit in Jakarta.

High on the sheer limestone cliffs in southwest China, ancient wooden coffins remain wedged into rock faces hundreds of feet ...

Urfa is known as the City of Prophets. Revered in Judaism, Christianity and Islam, it is associated with figures including ...

Night fell dark, harsh, and cold. Mount Gilboa, in northern Israel, rose above the Jezreel Valley, about 25 kilometers from ...

An excavation in Italy has unearthed the oldest and first known evidence of father-daughter incest in the archaeological record, a new genetic study reveals. The team found genetic clues of this ...

Every region has at least one story meant to make children behave, keep travelers alert, and explain the strange sounds that ...

Scientists made a unique discovery in a cave on the Caribbean island of Hispaniola: dozens of fossilized bee nests inside rodent bones that were deposited by owls thousands of years ago. When you ...

CAVE CREEK, AZ — What started as a simple idea from a young woman in treatment for alcohol addiction is now a Valley nonprofit serving thousands of people every year. Patricia Brusha founded Purse ...

The origin story of the human species is far from set in stone. Paul Salopek sits with a sculpture of a Homo erectus reading a book at the Chinese Academy of Science. China has become a hotbed of ...

With its Roman mosaics, grand stately homes and baroque city gates, this small Maltese city preserves traces of its ancient history. Mdina was once the capital of Malta and today it's an enticing ...