This new research emphasizes the importance of preserving such heritage sites, especially in a country where decades of ...

The enslaved people carried out a famous large-scale revolt in Iraq in 869 AD under the Abbasid state, known today as the ...

The research findings were published Monday in the journal Antiquity.The enslaved people from that era are known today as the Zanj, a medieval Arabic term for the East African Swahili coast, although ...

Cutting-edge imaging technologies are helping archaeologists uncover the secrets of vast outdoor sites, revealing the rich ...

founded in the early 19th century by freed African Americans. While not ancient in the sense of millennia-old civilizations, it is the oldest modern independent African state, gaining independence ...

which fed an innovative irrigation system of canals that allowed cultivation of a vast territory spreading north and south of Ma’rib, that was considered to be the largest artificial oasis in ancient ...

They had used similar canal technology in Spain for centuries. So, they set about conscripting Indigenous labor and adapting the irrigation system to their goals. Just a few decades later ...

However, the apparent success of this system masks an underlying fragility ... Culture was crucial for ancient canal systems Ancient beliefs, behaviors and norms – what archaeologists call ...

hunter-gatherers might have island-hopped their way to Africa across the Mediterranean. The first genomic study of ancient people from the eastern Maghreb region — present-day Tunisia and ...

Ancient Amazonians of the Casarabe culture (500-1400 CE) built an innovative dual water management system of drainage canals and ponds, enabling year-round corn cultivation in what is now modern ...