For several thousands of years, ancient Egypt dominated the Mediterranean world -- and scholars across the globe have spent more than a century trying to document the reigns of the various rulers of ...

https://doi.org/10.2307/2383003 • https://www.jstor.org/stable/2383003 Copy URL When studying ancient Japanese history, it is of great importance to place the facts ...

Archaeologists are uncovering toolkits and watercraft that do not sit neatly inside the familiar story of slow, linear progress from scattered foragers to settled farmers. Instead, these finds hint at ...

Plotting the gradual advancement mankind is a tricky thing for archaeologists. Researchers are forced to draw from rare artifacts, using them to make rough estimates of when certain groups of ...

An inscription on a 3,500-year-old stone block from Egypt may be one of the world’s oldest weather reports -- and could provide new evidence about the chronology of events in the ancient Middle East.

The arrival of modern humans in Australia around 60,000 years ago has long been shrouded in mystery and debate. Recent ...