Experts believe that the discovery of a 7,500-year-old civilization, along the coast in southeastern China, may have been the ...

With so much importance placed on these ancient cities, they often held the greatest treasures of the oldest civilizations they served. While the name might suggest this civilization is among the ...

An ancient shipwreck that dates back to the 7th century B.C.E. has been removed from waters off Spain, two decades after its ...

Located in the ancient capital Xi’an, the university has long focused on archaeological research in the northwestern region of China, uncovering civilizations ... found that people there in ...

A century ago, UChicago scholars argued a controversial idea: Western civilization had its roots in the ancient Middle East—not in Greece or Rome. Today, scholars at the OI and across the University ...

The people of the Pacific are intimately tied to the ocean. They sailed the sea hundreds of years before ... without the aid of sextants or compasses. The ancient Polynesians navigated their ...

Formed by the Tigris and Euphrates rivers and the Mediterranean Sea, this region gave rise to some of the world’s earliest ... A small but revolutionary group pursued a new idea: That civilization ...