The ruins of a prehistoric skyscraper: New research is revealing how Cornish tin appears to have boosted a long-lost Bronze Age Mediterranean civilization. This aerial photo shows that civilization's ...

Long before modern presidents, kings, or prime ministers, early civilizations were ruled by leaders who combined political, religious, and military authority. These rulers often became legendary, ...

Excavated artifacts included this toucan beak decorated with green and brown beads. Long before the Incas, there were the Carals. Named after its capitol city, the first known South American culture ...

In a long-sought first, researchers have sequenced the entire genome of an ancient Egyptian person, revealing unprecedented insight about the ancestry of a man who lived during the time when the first ...

New archaeological research is revealing that, more than a thousand years before Britain became part of the Roman Empire, it was part of an extraordinary Mediterranean-based trading network.