DNA reveals that in prehistoric China, men remained in their community, while women joined new family lineages.

Today, trans people face politicization of their lives and vilification from politicians, media and parts of broader society.

Evidence has been found at Kazhaw that Christians and Zoroastrians coexisted 1,500 years ago in Iraqi Kurdistan.

Erich von Däniken, who has died aged 90, was among the first writers to suggest that human civilisation, and even human ...

Study of ancient cuneiform cylinders reveals how Nebuchadnezzar II restored Kish’s ziggurat and linked his rule to Babylon’s ...

Women who died in childbirth, young men who died in war, infants who died before baptism—these especially pitiable dead were ...

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Archaeologists are examining bones at Çayönü Hill in the Ergani district of Diyarbakır, southeastern Türkiye, to reveal ...

A new exploration into an ancient tablet with its roots in ancient Mesopotamia has revealed that everything we thought we ...

The rotunda of the CSMVS, where a model of Dholavira (3000 to 1500 BCE), a key Harappan site, leads to the new learning gallery Networks of the Past. Courtesy: Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj Vastu ...

While leaders have changed, borders have shifted, and even some names have been altered, a handful of nations referenced in ...

Artificial intelligence (AI) has brought ancient languages to life, such as Ancient Greek and Old English, by demonstrating ...