The Indus Valley Civilisation, also known as the "Harappan Civilisation," is the oldest civilisation found in India. However, can you imagine another civilisation that existed before the Indus ...

As one of the first civilizations to adopt Christianity, Aksum played a crucial role in shaping the religious landscape of Africa. The Elamites established the oldest known civilization in Iran ...

Settled around 4500 B.C.E. in modern-day Iraq, Sumer is the world’s oldest known civilization. During the third millennium B.C.E., Sumerians built Girsu, a “megacity,” and dedicated it to ...

The excavation of bone tools at Olduvai Gorge in Tanzania expands the range of ancient hominids’ cultural innovations.

It contains the oldest known temple. Indeed ... Most archaeologists believed this sudden blossoming of civilization was driven largely by environmental changes: a gradual warming as the Ice ...

Long before the Incas came to power in Peru and began to celebrate their sun god, a little-known civilization was building the oldest known astronomical observatory in the Americas. While not as ...