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

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

In 1931, the Skhūl I fossil was uncovered at Mugharat es-Skhūl (the Cave of the Children), also known as Skhūl Cave, Israel.

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.

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

Researchers in Taiwan have discovered what the believe is the island's oldest civilization, dating back about 20,000 years and belonging to a pygmy-like people that came from China, Southeast Asia ...

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.