The northern bald ibis (Geronticus eremita) is an extravagant waterbird adapted to forage in dry, open habitats, and is ...

Archaeologists have discovered the large limestone burial chamber of an unidentified ancient Egyptian pharaoh near the city ...

An international team of archeologists have discovered a massive tomb that belonged to one of ancient Egypt ’s earliest ...

One artifact was popular among Greek aristocrats, suggesting the burial site belonged to someone with high social status, ...

The U.S. military did major damage to the site of one of the wonders of the ancient world while converting it into a base, the United Nations said in a new report. The site of the Hanging Gardens of ...

Inventions occasionally paint a very different picture of our ancient world. Ancient inventions can be groundbreaking. They give us more insight into past cultures, people, and technology.

These fascinating ancient maps can teach us so much about how our ancestors ... tablet has a labeled depiction of the world as it was known back then, with the Euphrates river in the center and ...

A large network of ancient irrigation canals has been discovered ... was used to divert Euphrates River water to farms. Researchers traced the canals using satellite imagery and geological mapping.

For centuries, historians and linguists have been searching for the cradle of the Indo-Europeans, an ancient people who ... people migrated from the Volga River to the Ukrainian steppe north ...

The study team was able to accurately identify and map over “200 primary canals” that were directly linked to the ancient Euphrates River. Furthermore, the team documented over 4,000 secondary ...

A sprawling, hidden network of ancient irrigation canals has been uncovered near the ancient city of Eridu in southern Mesopotamia. Under the leadership of geoarchaeologist Jaafar Jotheri, researchers ...

Researchers have identified an extensive Mesopotamian canal network that supplied ancient farms in the Eridu region with water from the Euphrates river before the first millennium B.C.