Ancient China began as a group of isolated communities during the Stone Age and eventually grew into a formidable empire.

For hundreds of years, Andean people recorded information by tying knots into long cords. Will we ever be able to read them?

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An ancient inscription indicates that in 262 AD there was another battle at Thermopylae between the Greeks and the Goths.

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A mysterious sphere found in Buga, Colombia, has stirred UFO buzz, but physicist Julia Mossbridge urges caution, suggesting ...

Researchers studying an ancient form of string-writing used in pre-Columbian South America have unraveled new clues to a ...

A collection of artefacts collected 2,500 years ago in modern-day Iraq reveal the forgotten world of Mesopotamia, home to many world firsts – including beer production.

That is what makes them so special.” What we know about the Hittites is, by the standards of ancient history, incredibly new. Hittite writing wasn’t unlocked until 1915, when a linguist in ...

The shift from ancient to modern metropolises often leaves historians and curious minds asking: which are the oldest ...

Today, more than 30 Mayan languages exist and are spoken by at least six million people worldwide. Although some, like ...

A mysterious monument hidden for 12,000 years in Turkey is revealing secrets about how ancient humans might have tracked time ...