A new study uses metabolic profiling to uncover ancient knowledge systems behind therapeutic and psychoactive plant use in ancient Arabia.

The mummy was found in Aspero, a sacred site within the city of Caral that was a garbage dump for over 30 years until ...

A team from Heidelberg University excavating in Iraq made a spectacular find: In the throne room of the North Palace of King ...

By examining different materials buried along with the watercraft, experts could determine the age of the boat.

Caral society developed between 3000 and 1800 BC, around the same time as other great cultures in Mesopotamia, Egypt and China. The city is situated in the fertile Supe valley, around 180 ...

Surface finds of painted potsherds then suggested that this site would probably prove of great importance to the little-known earlier pre history of northern Mesopotamia. The discovery of pottery ...

The femoral fracture in grave 2399 with the tibia repositioned to show the 45-degrees angulation. (Image Credit: Nelly Hercberg, Cultural Museum in Lund.) Archaeologists in Sweden have combined ...

Nonetheless, scholars suggest that the Caral civilization was significantly more isolated than contemporary ancient communities, such as the Sumerians in Mesopotamia or the Harappans in India.

Archaeologists excavating the ruins of an ancient Assyrian king’s throne room in Iraq found a massive 26,000-pound carving, a university said. Photo from Schmitt via Heidelberg University ...

Caral society developed between 3000 and 1800BC, about the same time as other great cultures in Mesopotamia, Egypt and China. The city is situated in the fertile Supe valley, about 180km north of Lima ...