The shift from ancient to modern metropolises often leaves historians and curious minds asking: which are the oldest ...

The Olmec were an ancient Mexican civilization best known for the statues they left behind: the so-called “colossal heads.” In 1999, their writing system was revealed when road builders ...

When people think of ancient civilizations ... pioneering everything from astronomical observatories to complex writing systems thousands of years before historians thought it possible.

Most historians believe the Greek Dark Ages followed the Mycenaean Era of Greece, but some disagree. What does the evidence ...

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

Despite our modern technology and relentless pursuit of knowledge, some riddles of the ancient world remain unsolved. From ...

The unique ancient Greek board game Zatrikion discovered at the Knossos Palace shows that the ancients had a penchant for ...

We know what ancient life was like, in part, because people wrote about it. The Sumerians developed cuneiform, the first known writing system, which was eventually used by many languages and ...

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

Ancient DNA analysis challenges our understanding ... such as the first alphabet (from which many present-day writing systems derive). By the early first millennium BCE, Phoenician cities had ...

The Phoenician culture emerged in the Bronze Age city-states of the Levant, developing prominent innovations such as the first alphabet (from which many present-day writing systems derive).