Researchers in the UK have extracted and sequenced the oldest Egyptian DNA to date from an individual who lived more than ...

SAN FRANCISCO — A 200-year-long drought 4,200 years ago may have killed off the ancient Sumerian language, one geologist says.

These ancient Bolivian skeletons reveal foraging was far healthier than agriculture.

The study of how growing conditions, farming practices and crop domestication evolved from the beginning of agriculture is crucial for revealing the complexity and dynamics of ancient societies ...

Bloomsbury Auctions/BNPSThis 5,000-year-old tablet depicting beer-making and a signed sales transaction was sold for $230,000. A wealthy American collector purchased an ancient Sumerian tablet for ...

The Sumerians worshipped thousands of gods — perhaps as many as 3,000 — from An, the Lord of the Sky, to Ereshkigal, the goddess in charge of the Netherworld. But while Sumerian gods were ...

Scientists had been puzzled by the discovery of more recent Greek inscriptions at the ancient Sumerian temple of Girsu, in the modern-day town of Tello. Now, British Museum archaeologists believe ...

Hundreds of acres in Michigan are covered in parallel rows of earth that are the remains of an ancient Native American agricultural system. The surprise find has archaeologists amazed.