Even long before the days of the world's oldest civilizations, humans were creating settlements and even building impressive, beautiful structures. Nowhere is this more evident than at the Pre ...

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.

Archaeology & History Ancient Egyptian DNA Fully Sequenced for the First Time Findings show the man traced 20 percent of his ancestry from West Asia. Detail of frescos in Tutankhamen's tomb.

Excavations on unpromising mounds in the Iraqi desert revealed Sumer’s earliest city. Surviving relics and a rebuilt temple have given experts more clues about the ancient metropolis of Eridu.

The man, whose remains were found buried in a sealed clay pot in Nuwayrat, a village south of Cairo, lived sometime between 4,500 and 4,800 years ago, which makes his DNA the oldest ancient ...

Around that time, in 146 B.C., the Roman army conquered the Greek peninsula, transforming the region’s society and economy.