An archaeological breakthrough has shed new light on the age, construction, and function of the Great Wall of China.

One of Syria’s six UNESCO World Heritage sites, Palmyra was once a key hub to the ancient Silk Road network linking the Roman and Parthian empires to Asia. Located in the Syrian desert, it is renowned ...

Feng shui is an ancient Chinese art of arranging things within a space in such a way as to create a good flow of energy that ...

Work to give 21st-century London yet another skyscraper has uncovered traces — in fact chunks — of the city’s origins almost ...

The city’s history stretches far beyond its most well-known landmarks, offering a fascinating glimpse into the early development of Chinese culture, politics, and art. Xi’an is most ... provides a ...

Plans for a solar farm near ancient ruins in Kent have been unveiled ... after the invasion by Emperor Claudian in 43 AD. The wall of the fortress and amphitheatre remain visible on the site ...

The Great Wall was an ancient Chinese military defense project that played a crucial role in maintaining border stability, facilitating agricultural development, protecting communication routes ...

The Great Wall was an ancient Chinese military defense project that played a crucial role in maintaining border stability, facilitating agricultural development, protecting communication routes, and ...

Linguists and archaeologists have long argued about which group of ancient people spoke the original Indo-European language. A new study in the journal Nature throws a new theory into the fray.

Ancient-genomics researchers have pinpointed the homelands of a nomadic tribe that transformed the culture and genetics of Europe and Asia, revealing a potential source for the Indo–European ...

Million-year-old air preserved in ancient ice holds clues to a mystery that has stumped scientists for decades: Why did the ice ages that once transformed Earth every 40,000 years begin to occur ...

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, ...