Long before paleontology, ancient civilizations stumbled upon massive bones buried in the earth. With no science to explain ...

How did a civilization over 2,000 years ago build technology more advanced than medieval Europe? This documentary explores the Antikythera mechanism—an ancient “computer” that predicted eclipses and ...

Shamahi charts humanity's evolutionary odyssey. We sat down with her to discuss the path of our species out of Africa to ...

Archaeologists unearthed a massive trove of gold coins in the Czech Republic, minted by a long-lost civilization — with the site described by officials as "exceptional." The discovery was announced by ...

A newly published study challenges long-held assumptions about the origins of urban civilization in ancient Mesopotamia, suggesting that the rise of Sumer was driven by the dynamic interplay of rivers ...

A joint Harvard-KRG survey in Erbil has identified five new archaeological sites, bringing the provincial total to 988. The ...

Later this month, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi will travel to Tianjin for the Shanghai Cooperation Organization Summit — his first visit to China since 2018. The symbolism will be closely ...

Jack Knudson is an assistant editor for Discover Magazine who writes articles on space, ancient humans, animals, and sustainability, and manages the Planet Earth column of the print issue. View Full ...

Around 8,000 to 6,000 BCE, the North and Baltic seas ... weren’t seas at all. Instead, they were vast plains that were home to ancient human civilizations. But as the curtain drew to a close on the ...

Editor’s note: This is part of a series called “The Day Tomorrow Began,” which explores the history of breakthroughs at UChicago. Learn more here. The “Fertile Crescent,” a term coined by University ...

The cities of Cairo and Luxor hosted a series of cultural and tourism exchange events between Egyptian and Chinese youth, as ...