Students of the month have been announced for December. Brocton Middle School named sixth-grader Freixedo Diaz, son of Selena ...

Across deserts, jungles, and polar ice, new discoveries are quietly stretching the story of civilization further back in time ...

A new international award known as the “Humanity Civilization Award” was launched by the World Daming Foundation in Hong Kong ...

Buried in the desert for roughly 4,500 years, the skeleton of a single Egyptian man has yielded a complete genome that ...

These ruins of the city of Babylon in Iraq date to the Neo-Babylonian Empire (626–539 B.C.). A 22-inch-high basalt stela depicting Babylon’s king Nabonidus (r. 556–539 B.C.) shows him wearing a ...

Dozens of research articles from 1999–2024 mention early Babylonians using fingerprint biometrics, despite no evidence ...

London, UK - 18 Dec, 2025 - A little over two thousand years ago, an unusual star was seen in the skies above Jerusalem, ...

Across the globe, a race is under way to crack some of the last mysterious forms of writing that have never been translated.

These out-of-place artifacts, or OOPArts, are surprising for their place and time — but there's an explanation behind each ...

New research suggests the Indus Valley Civilization was reshaped by centuries of river drought, migration, and climate stress ...

In Mesopotamia, Egypt and the Indus valley, the first urban settlements were built around irrigated farmland. Flooded terrace fields for rice, corn and quinoa accompanied the spread of civilization in ...

The city's desperate situation has its origins in a commitment to food self-sufficiency and wasteful usage, with more than 90 ...