New DNA analysis has uncovered a 4,750-year-old female-led society in ancient China. Researchers say it is the oldest known ...

What it is: A clay tablet inscribed with the oldest known map of the ancient world Where it is from: Abu Habba (Sippar), an ancient Babylonian city in what is now Iraq When it was made: Approximately ...

Archaeologists unearthed the settlement of the female-dominated Neolithic Dawenkou culture in the Shandong province of eastern China near the estuary of the Yellow River—considered the birthplace of ...

The system, dated to around the 3rd or 4th century A.D. and lost for centuries, lies in the foothills of the Tian Shan Mountains.

Chinese spelunkers have discovered a massive 630-foot sinkhole with a primeval forest growing at the bottom.

Archeologists are hoping that an ancient map, left largely unstudied for 4,000 years, can point them towards some hidden secrets of the ancient world.

Discover interesting facts about ancient China's rulers, philosophy, and the Great Wall of China.

Archaeologists at Zhouqiao site in Kaifeng, Henan, China, discovered six ancient cities stacked on top of each other, massive stone murals.

The Babylonian Map of the World, originating from ancient Iraq around the sixth century B.C., is the oldest known map. Depicting a circular world with Babylon at its center and surrounded by water ...

Archeologists in China have found the remains of what may be the world’s oldest known flush toilet.

Ancient Buddhist murals in northwestern China are under “direct threat” due to unprecedented rainfall brought by climate change, researchers said.