Three hundred million years ago, the largest insect ever known to humankind hunted in fern jungles and boasted an enormous ...

Massive stone structures, mysterious colossi, and ancient waterways point to a sophisticated culture that may have thrived long before history officially began.

Shimao ruins, an important prehistoric site located in Northwest China's Shaanxi Province Photo: Courtesy of National Cultural Heritage Administration . A groundbreaking genetic s ...

A new book argues that civilizations built on centralized wealth and power contain the seeds of their own destruction.

XI'AN, Dec. 4 (Xinhua) -- Multiple grain storage pits dating back more than 4,000 years were discovered in northwest China's ...

A 4,000-year-old burial in Sudan’s Bayuda Desert reveals rare Kerma-era rituals, grave goods, and clues to a forgotten Nile ...

Sudanese archaeologist Shadia Abdrabo is on a mission to preserve the art of Sudan and heritage amid the country's Civil War.

Ultimately, these 573 fortresses redefine what we know about northern China’s prehistory. Long before the first emperors ...

The royal symbol on the newly discovered figurines solves a long-standing mystery by identifying who was buried in the ...

Thousands of kids, a 12,000-year-old woolly mammoth, six galleries worth of history to learn and a million rabbit holes -- ...

For more than a century, the origins and migrations of Austronesian peoples have been a significant subject of international ...

A 13-year study of DNA samples collected from the 4,000-year-old Shimao site, a complex of gigantic prehistoric ruins on the ...