This 5,000-year-old tablet is believed to hold the world's first signature — and it's on a receipt for beer. Experts believe that the tablet records the purchase of barley for brewing beer and was ...

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

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

Humans discovered fermentation thousands of years ago, but ancient brews would have tasted much differently from the beers of ...

Buried for five millennia and forgotten beneath what was once a coastal dump, the tomb of a powerful woman from Peru’s ...

From May 12 to October 31, the museum will host "Allspice -- Michael Rakowitz and Ancient Cultures," a collaborative show ...

The Exorcist tells the terrifying story of a young girl possessed by the demon Pazuzu after an ancient relic is uncovered.

They fought the Egyptians, sacked Babylon, and built elaborate cities. Then the Hittites vanished. Today, new discoveries are ...

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

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 ...

TEHRAN - Dehloran, as one of the significant regions in western Iran, has been settled in prehistoric times and contains ...