For hundreds of years, Andean people recorded information by tying knots into long cords. Will we ever be able to read them?

From his roof, Sidi Mohamed Lemine Sidiya scans the medieval town of Oualata, a treasure that is disappearing under the sands ...

Although Damask roses are cultivated in other parts of India, the varietal favors Ganges alluvial soils surrounding the city of Kannauj ... perfumes date back to ancient Egypt, when plants ...

The ancient city—in what is today central Türkiye—was abandoned around 1180 B.C. Modern researchers are trying to find out why. At its height, the ancient city of Hattuşa, capital of the ...

Photo from Schmitt via Heidelberg University Sifting through the tan dirt of northern Iraq, archaeologists looked at the remnants of an ancient empire’s capital city. They sifted carefully ...