A 3,300-year-old mask found in Bahrain reveals new details about the ancient Dilmun civilization’s burial customs.

Across caves, jungles, and deserts, archaeologists are piecing together traces of societies that slipped from written history yet left unmistakable fingerprints in stone, bone, and buried ritual.

Historians and divers are trying to retrieve prehistoric clues from beneath the waves—but they have to act fast.

While the world remembers Rome, Egypt, and China as lasting superpowers, many other extraordinary civilizations flourished, ...

CC0 Usage Conditions ApplyClick for more information. Archaeologists believe the sudden destruction of a pre-Columbian civilization found in southern Illinois occurred around 1150 AD. But to find the ...