New discoveries of Stone Age symbols in Germany could push back the history of writing by over 30,000 years, potentially ...

The civilisation’s previously accepted timeline was around 2600 BC, but using radiocarbon dating on pottery fragments and animal remains they have found at the site, Archaeological Survey of India ...

Elam was an ancient civilization in what is now Iran, known through both its own records and Mesopotamian accounts. Using the Elamite Fortification Tablets from Persepolis, this food reconstruction ...

The Indus Valley Civilization once stretched across nearly 1.25 million square kilometers, rivaling Egypt and Mesopotamia in scale and sophistication. Its cities featured grid-based layouts, ...

Historian John Stow claimed that Henry VIII had around 70,000 people executed (although this is believed to be an exaggerated ...

More than 5,000 years ago, the world’s oldest known writing system emerged in what is now Iraq, establishing the country as the epicenter of recorded human history. […] ...

Among the most persistent claims is that extraterrestrials assisted in the construction of ancient civilizations.

Traumatic injury is the third leading cause of death in the state of Texas, surpassing strokes, Alzheimer's disease and diabetes, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. A massive ...

Learn about how British mercantilism fueled economic imbalance, slavery, and revolution in the American colonies, leading to the rise of free trade and the end of mercantilism.

Researchers are using clay-derived nanosilicates integrated into an expandable shape-memory nanocomposite to create ...