The global launch of an upcoming exhibition at Shanghai Museum, On Top of the World Tree: Ancient Civilizations of the Americas, was held in Shanghai on May 8. [Gao Erqiang/China Daily] Shanghai ...

According to ancient Greek texts, this was a land of eternal spring, inhabited by a race of giants who lived for a thousand years without disease or war. They called it Hyperborea, a realm existing ...

Animals maintain complex cultures, communication systems, infrastructure, and intergenerational knowledge, writes Ryan Huling ...

Rediscovered at the beginning of the 20th century through the work of British archaeologist Sir Arthur Evans, the Minoan ...

Researchers who analyzed genomes from early medieval graves in modern-day Germany hypothesize that people from the former ...

A gold-filled tomb in Panama has led researchers to find evidence of a ancient culture that left behind no written records and simply vanished 1,000 years ago.

Ancient earthquakes didn’t just destroy cities they reshaped entire societies. This video explores the most catastrophic ...

From advanced manufacturing to cultural heritage preservation, Central China's Henan is showcasing a new model of ...

Excerpted with permission from the publisher The Indus: Lost Civilizations, Andrew Robinson, published by‎ Macmillan, an ...

Mohenjo-Daro, which dates back to about 2500 BCE, was a carefully laid-out city. The element of water figured prominently in ...

The artefacts will be housed at the Centre of Islamic Civilization as part of ongoing efforts to trace and recover cultural ...