In 2000 BCE, a civilization in the Americas faced a century-long drought by relocating strategically to nearby places.

New archaeological discoveries in Peru show how ancient communities rebuilt after a devastating drought more than 4,000 years ago - Anadolu Ajansı ...

Spotted from an airplane by remote sensing equipment, a vast and ancient Maya complex was hidden from view for millennia by forest and fields before it was made public in 2020. Five years on, ...

Scientists have for the first time sequenced the most complete and oldest ancient Egyptian genome ever found—unlocking new secrets from the Old Kingdom. This facial reconstruction of an ancient ...

Carvings on a 12,000-year-old monument in Turkey appear to mark solar days and years, making it possibly the oldest solar calendar in ancient civilization. Marking a massive comet strike as the start, ...

Many of the oldest inhabited cities in Greece are still standing against all odds. They have survived to this day to tell the ...

NHK has learned that a Japan-based group that investigated ancient burial mounds in Bahrain found what could be one of the ...