The process appears to take place in a temple in ancient Mesopotamia around 3,100 B.C., dating the tablet back to 5,000 years ago. As part of a private collection, the historical artifact which ...

Around 5,000 years ago, members of an ancient Peruvian Indigenous group buried an elite member of their society: They wrapped ...

The unique ancient Greek board game Zatrikion discovered at the Knossos Palace shows that the ancients had a penchant for leisurely games.

The woman—with skin, hair and nails still intact—belonged to the little-known Caral civilization, which flourished in Peru ...

Iraqi-American Artist Michael Rakowitz. The contemporary artworks are exhibited in dialogue with 13 ancient artifacts, 12 of ...

The Caral civilization, active around 3000 B.C., thrived in isolation at the same time as the Egyptian pyramids were rising ...

That's because the process of ancient beer brewing began with a mixture ... Paulette said there is some written evidence of ...

The Acropolis Museum in Athens presents *“Allspice – Michael Rakowitz and Ancient Cultures,”* a powerful new exhibition exploring themes of cultural loss, war, and restitution. Running from May 12 to ...

It formed about a thousand years after Mesopotamia’s Sumer, at around the same time the ancient Egyptians built ... dump for three decades. The artifacts from the grave were displayed at a ...

Archaeologists in Dahwa, Oman, found two strange discs that turned out to be a rare 4,000-year-old musical instrument, according to a recently published study.

The Caral civilization, active around 3000 B.C., thrived in isolation at the same time as the Egyptian pyramids were rising and Mesopotamia was inventing writing. But unlike those ancient giants ...