They fought the Egyptians, sacked Babylon, and built elaborate cities. Then the Hittites vanished. Today, new discoveries are restoring the legend of a forgotten superpower.

The enormous stone structure, complete with angular steps and flat terraces, looks uncannily like the ruins of a man-made ...

We Might Feel Love in Our Fingertips But Did the Ancient Mesopotamians? Dec. 4, 2024 — A multidisciplinary team of researchers studied a large body of texts to find out how people in the ancient ...

For centuries, the lost city of 'Atlantis' has remained one of history's greatest mysteries: part legend, part science, and ...

Sumerian civilization appears to have evolved in Southern Mesopotamia around 4000 BC, while some historians place it as far back as 5000 BC.

In fact, it was such a significant civilization that people who study ancient Egyptian history have a special name: Egyptologists. Keep reading to learn all about why ancient Egypt was so influential.

Carvings on a 12,000-year-old monument in Turkey appear to mark solar days and years, making it possibly the oldest solar ...

The vibrant period of Ancient Greek civilization from 1200 BCE to 323 BCE gave us exceptional achievements that we continue to benefit from today. It was a long stretch of time that spanned from ...

In a cave overlooking the ocean on the southern coast of South Africa, archaeologists discovered thousands of stone tools, created by ancient humans ... revealed that people were sharing crafting ...

The Nuragic obsession with seafaring is reflected in the final phase of their art - for they are the ancient Bronze Age civilization which produced by far the largest number of bronze and ceramic ...

Through this multifaceted approach, the book vividly showcases the ancient civilization's unique allure. Zhang Yu, editor-in-chief of Yilin Press, the book's publisher, said that it is not only a ...

That aspiration is best embodied in his Global Civilization Initiative (GCI ... standing both as a nod to ancient ties and as a bold stitch in a fraying global tapestry. Chinese President ...