For the king, the aim was to make “submission not just tolerable but actually desirable.” That enabled Mesopotamian rule to ...

The oldest collection of mass-produced prehistoric bone tools reveal that human ancestors were likely capable of more advanced abstract reasoning one million years earlier than thought, finds a new ...

Learn more about the earliest "factory" of bone tools ever discovered, which saw the systematic shaping of bone some 1 million years before other such "factories." ...

Deep in the vast steppes of Central Asia, archaeologists have uncovered a remarkable ancient structure—a pyramid over 3,000 ...

The bone tools date from more than a million years before our species, Homo sapiens, arose around 300,000 years ago.

Outside of Europe, Egypt was known for its complex societies in the same time period, but the western coast of the ...