On a low rise in southeastern Turkey, a ring of carved stone pillars has forced archaeologists to rethink how civilization began. The site, known as Göbekli Tepe, is roughly 12,000 years old, which ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. New research shows the origins of Sumerian civilization were shaped by tides, rivers, and shifting Mesopotamian landscapes.

From a buried stone giant unearthed by a farmworker in 1850s Veracruz to the towering jungle pyramids of El Mirador, this is the story of the civilizations that shaped Mesoamerica long before the ...

Second place of publication from publisher's website. Translated from the Chinese. An Interdisciplinary Paradigm of Mythology -- A New Methodology: The Quadruple-Evidence Method -- The Big Tradition ...

Ancient DNA from Shimao reveals local origins, broad prehistoric connections, a patrilineal social structure, and ...

More than 3,000 years ago, this was the heart of the Shang Dynasty(c.16th to 11th century BC). A great capital stood here, where rituals shaped social order, agriculture flourished, and master ...

Ancient China and its anthropological significance / Kwang-chih Chang -- Near Eastern breakout and the Mesopotamian social contract / C.C. Lamberg-Karlovsky -- Ancient Chinese, New World, and Near ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Of course, the story of humans in Africa doesn’t end with their migration away from the mother continent. After all, many stayed ...

In places like Uruk and Eridu in modern-day Iraq, humans founded the first cities nearly 6,000 years ago. They left us literature, astronomy, and mathematics, as well as lessons in overpopulation and ...