Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story: Carvings on a 12,000-year-old monument in Turkey appear to mark solar days and years, making it possibly the oldest solar calendar in ancient ...

The oldest continuously inhabited city on Earth is over 10,000 years old - and it’s in Syria. Damascus has witnessed the rise and fall of countless empires, from ancient civilizations to modern ...

In Caral, Peru, on April 20, 2026, archaeologists uncovered a circular two-level structure in Áspero linked to astronomy and ...

Humans have been around for around 350,000 years, but it has only been a short time since they began to group together in what we call civilizations. In all of our history on this planet, humans have ...

Archaeologists in Peru have found new evidence showing how the oldest known civilization in the Americas adapted and survived a climate catastrophe without resorting to violence. A team led by the ...

The existential question of which countries are the oldest has long intrigued historians, and for good reason. However, defining what makes a country "old" is challenging, as it depends on historical ...

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Shi’s Star Catalog has been notoriously difficult to date, but new research suggests astronomers drafted it centuries before its Western counterpart. Reading time 3 minutes Humans have been stargazing ...

Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story: An ancient monument discovered in Turkey may just be an ancient monument. But, if its markings are what experts think they are, it might be the world ...