Four small, clay tablets, unearthed in 2004, are finally gaining attention as possibly the first evidence of an alphabet, but ...

Eight years ago, construction workers discovered centuries-old human remains in Old City. Recently, descendants and ...

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The U.N.'s Human Development Index provides new explanations for the success of Europe's first mega settlements.

Johns Hopkins University, the University of California-San Francisco, the University of Pennsylvania, the University of Michigan and the University of Washington.

One of the most fascinating periods in the evolution of the human lineage is the appearance of the first ancestors capable of ...

Using drones and Google Earth imagery, archaeologists have discovered a 4,000-year-old network of earthen canals in what’s ...

Incised ashlar blocks found at a historic site in Jordan may have led to a major archaeological breakthrough. The stone blocks unearthed at a site just east of Dayr Allah in the western part of ...

The National News reports that a joint Egyptian-German archaeological team led by Mohamed Abdel Badie of the Central ...