The artifacts were excavated from a city dating back to the third millennium B.C.E. by researchers from Iraq and the British ...

Archaeologists say they've found "the very first material evidence of the very first empire in the world" in 4,000-year-old ...

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

For centuries, historians and linguists have been searching for the cradle of the Indo-Europeans, an ancient people who shaped history and created the world’s largest language family ...

Five hundred years have passed since the death of Cuauhtémoc, the last ruler of the Aztec Empire. To commemorate this anniversary, a special issue of Arqueología Mexicana was published ...

This ancient period of deep freeze, known as the Neoproterozoic Era, or “Snowball Earth,” lasted from about 1 billion to 543 million years ago. During that time, landmasses consolidated into a ...

From the rover's point of view on the ground, it's hard to tell, but this ancient shoreline on Mars seemed to lie inside a 2,050-mile-wide (3,300-kilometer-wide) impact crater called Utopia Basin.

Ancient genomes reveal trans-Eurasian connections between the European Huns and the Xiongnu Empire. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences , 2025; 122 (9) DOI: 10.1073/pnas.2418485122 ...

The Huns were a nomadic people whose sudden and ferocious arrival in the late 4th century sent shockwaves through the ancient world ... the heart of the Roman Empire. They were led by Attila ...

A new study of ancient DNA from fifth- to sixth-century Hun skeletons suggests they were a motley crew of mixed origin with a few connections to the Xiongnu Empire in Mongolia.