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

90-foot underwater ‘pyramid’ could predate Egyptian landmarks and Stonehenge by thousands of years — and rewrite history, scientists say ...

New research suggests that the title of world's oldest civilization goes to the indigenous populations of Australia and Papua New Guinea.

Oldest Buildings in North America At the beginning of the Mayan civilization around 800 BCE, Nakbe was built in northern Guatemala.

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

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

Scientists have found and dated the oldest human remnants ever uncovered in the Americas -- a discovery that places people genetically similar to Native Americans in Oregon more than 14,000 years ...

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 ...

Scientists Found a 43,000-Year-Old Fingerprint That May Be the Oldest Ever Left by a Human The fingerprint’s Neanderthal owner was just painting a self-portrait.

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 ...

From the earliest beats of human civilization to the electric pulse of modern music, no instrument has carried the weight of human experience quite like the drum. It is one of the oldest ...