An Egyptian-American team unearthed a large royal tomb for an unknown king belonging to the mysterious Abydos Dynasty, a ...

One of history's biggest questions is: "How does an entire civilization disappear?" One can comprehend how an object or even a city is lost, buried, or destroyed, but an entire group or nation of ...

The discovery of an ancient Tiwanaku temple in Bolivia is helping researchers paint a more complete picture of what the society once looked like. The Tiwanaku civilization was considered one of the ...

Waššukanni has never been found and some scholars think that it may be located in northeastern Syria. The people who lived in ...

Officials said the ancient city of Kuélap is the most important archaeological site in northeastern Peru. Photo by Peru's Ministry of Culture. High up in the mountains of Peru’s Amazonas region, in ...

Archaeologists announced Thursday the discovery of the remains of a woman who lived approximately 5,000 years ago and is believed to have belonged to the elite of the Caral civilization, one of the ...

LIMA, Aug 29 (Reuters) - A small sculpture of two toads, and other water-linked symbols found near the Peruvian city of Caral - once the oldest city on the continent - have helped archaeologists ...

Successive major droughts, each lasting longer than 85 years, were likely a key factor in the eventual fall of the Indus Valley Civilization, according to a paper published in Communications Earth & ...

Archaeologists excavating some 4,000-year-old ruins in Peru found a circular altar used for ceremonial burns, officials said and photos show. Photo from Peru’s Ministry of Culture At the base of an ...

The burial was discovered in the remains of a building in an ancient fishing town. Peru Ministry of Culture Around 5,000 years ago, members of an ancient Peruvian Indigenous group buried an elite ...