The ancient world was replete with a myriad of fascinating civilizations, many of which are no longer remembered.

After 60 years in the United States, more than 900 artifacts are being repatriated to Mexico in a major archeological win.

JEFFREY BROWN: In fact, De Leon, a 2017 MacArthur fellow, began his archaeological career in a more traditional way, studying the ancient Olmec civilization of Mesoamerica. It was local workers in ...

The publication about the Guyanese-born artist includes diary entries and several works that have been photographed for the ...

From the carefully constructed streets of Indus Valley to Egypt's lofty pyramids, from the heavens' wisdom of the Maya to the written records of the Sumerians, the earliest civilisations set the stage ...

Linear Elamite writing was used at least from the reign of King Puzur-Shushinak, shortly after the collapse of the Akkadian empire around 2150 bce ... the Byblos syllabary, the Olmec glyphs – attests ...

The Empire had three city-states of which Tenochtitlan was the ... The first cacao plants grew here and the Olmec civilisation made chocolate which they drank in liquid form and used as a medicine.