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

The discovery in southwest Spain is believed to be associated with the ancient, Paleo-Hispanic civilization of Tartessos ... appears to be a sequence of 21 signs drawn within the framework of ...

Skeptics argue the structure is a natural formation, while others believe it is evidence of a 10,000-year-old civilization.

Skeletons found at Pacopampa, the site of an ancient Andean civilization in Peru, show signs of ritual violence. Archaeologists study violence to better understand how people in ancient societies ...

This distinction places Iran ahead of other ancient civilizations such as Egypt (3100 BC), Vietnam (2879 BC), Armenia (2492 BC), and North Korea (2333 BC), which round out the top five in the global ...

A century ago, UChicago scholars argued a controversial idea: Western civilization had its roots in the ancient Middle East—not in Greece or Rome. Today, scholars at the OI and across the University ...