With the thick vegetation of the northern Guatemala rainforests hiding its 2,000-year-old remnants, the full extent of the early Mayan way of life was once impossible to see. But laser technology has ...

manuscripts at the National Museum of Iraq and the nearby National Library were created over 9,000 years of human history -- art and ideas from some of the world’s earliest villages and cultures. But ...

BEIJING--(BUSINESS WIRE)--An exhibition on the 10,000-year-old Shangshan culture opened at the National Museum of China in Beijing on Nov. 21. A total of nearly 200 exhibits were displayed at the ...

Both Egypt and China have such long histories; their ancient cultures are often compared. For example, China's Shang Dynasty ...

Archaeologists are uncovering toolkits and watercraft that do not sit neatly inside the familiar story of slow, linear progress from scattered foragers to settled farmers. Instead, these finds hint at ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Excavations at Çatalhöyük show how closely people lived before the settlement collapsed. Mark Nesbitt/Wikimedia Commons, CC BY In ...