Buried for five millennia and forgotten beneath what was once a coastal dump, the tomb of a powerful woman from Peru’s ...

Imagine being able to travel back thousands of years, not with a time machine, but through the words our ancestors spoke. It ...

Whether created by ancient Egyptian scribes, medieval monks, or Mayan priests, these 26 remarkable survivors have endured ...

INTRODUCTION Egyptologists have made one cardinal mistake by including human beings with white complexions as Pharaohs in ...

Many of our practices and behaviours go back four thousand years. For example, the Danish archaeologists found evidence that ...

As my teaching and writing careers end in the next few weeks, I’m trying to suppress a feeling of quiet despair.

Excavations on unpromising mounds in the Iraqi desert revealed Sumer’s earliest city. Surviving relics and a rebuilt temple ...

Reading like the lyrics to a popular song or poem from modern times, ancient Greek poems have prompted new insights into ...

The Phoenician culture emerged in the Bronze Age city-states of the Levant, developing prominent innovations such as the ...

In ancient Mesopotamia, bulls were powerful symbols of fertility, strength, and abundance. Bulls were depicted in religious rituals and temple art being closely related to gods like Enlil and Adad ...

At Ancient Origins, we believe that one of the most important fields of knowledge we can pursue as human beings is our beginnings. And while some people may seem content with the story as it stands, ...