Göbekli Tepe, located in southeastern Turkey, is considered the world's oldest known temple complex predating Stonehenge by ...

AN ANCIENT city that is over 3,500 years old has been unearthed in Peru. The ancient city of Peñico is thought to have been a ...

New research suggests that the title of world's oldest civilization goes to the indigenous populations of Australia and Papua New Guinea. Scientists say the DNA of these people can be traced back ...

To the music of conch shell trumpets, a 3,800-year-old citadel of the Caral civilization—one of the oldest in the ...

If this massive stone construction is truly more than 10,000 years old, it also predates England’s Stonehenge and could be the oldest human-made structure known. via REUTERS Not everyone’s ...

Countless discoveries of human creation help us date civilization back tens of thousands of years. ... The oldest buildings in Oceania stood as the Venice of the Pacific for over 800 years.

The Sumerians of Mesopotamia are considered the world's oldest civilisation, dating back to around 4000 BCE. The Sumerians were the first to establish cities, write a language, and create art.

Forty years after the first effort to extract mummy DNA, researchers have finally generated a full genome sequence from an ...

Human Traces Found to Be Oldest in N. America Remnants Provide New Clues in Debate Over Where and When Continent's First Inhabitants Lived April 4, 2008 More than 17 years ago ...

Human DNA recovered from remains found in Europe is revealing our species’ shared history with Neanderthals. The trove is the oldest Homo sapiens DNA ever documented, scientists say.