Explore the 10 oldest cities in Europe, where ancient legacies endure and history continues to shape the present.

The Aztecs didn't discover obsidian. It was already the most common raw material in Mesoamerica when they arrived in the Basin of Mexico in 1200, and the use of obsidian on a broad scale dates to the ...

Study challenges long-standing beliefs about the Mediterranean Phoenician-Punic civilization, a culture recognized as one of ...

The findings, published in the journal Antiquity, provide the first conclusive chemical evidence that tin from Cornwall and ...

Freedom or death has always been a battle cry and virtue for the Greeks throughout their history. From the battles against ...

The Mycenaean civilization was the first advanced culture of mainland Greece, shaping the foundations of Greek identity, myth ...

Across southern Mexico, Guatemala, Belize, and Honduras, ancient Maya cities lie scattered like puzzle pieces waiting to be ...

Archaeologists have uncovered a vast network of ancient cities in Ecuador’s Amazon. Recent advancements in archaeological ...

And if archaeology hadn't emerged in the 18th century, many of these civilizations would have become permanently lost to time ...

Even though archaeological and scientific tools have discovered much about these ancient civilizations, including facts about ...

Deep beneath the soil of North Macedonia, near the village of Crnobuki, a long-lost city is emerging from the shadows of ...

For thousands of years, Istanbul has marked the point where East meets West — a true crossroads of civilizations. Once known ...