Native people have been occupying Arizona for thousands of years, but it wasn't until 1877 that Arizona's first city was incorporated.

In Louisiana, hunter-gatherers of the Evans culture built Watson Brake, a massive complex of 11 mounds connected by ridges, ...

India’s history is undeniably ancient, with the Indus Valley Civilization, Vedic period, and later empires forming the ...

New research shows that the rise of Sumer was deeply tied to the tidal and sedimentary dynamics of ancient Mesopotamia. Early ...

In a remarkable find that deepens our understanding of one of the world’s oldest civilizations, archaeologists working at the Era de Pando archaeological site in Peru’s Supe Valley have uncovered a ...

A Cambridge academic found a rare 15th-century manuscript in Scotland, revealing the oldest medieval stand-up comedy. Apparently, they had jokes and laughter back then too! Not even Chat GPT knows ...

The world’s oldest man, João Marinho Neto, turned 113 on Oct. 5, celebrating his birthday with a party with loved ones Neto became the world's oldest man in November 2024, and he told Guinness World ...

Around 3400 BC, the Sumerians, the world’s oldest known civilization, first cultivated the opium poppy in lower Mesopotamia, calling it Hul Gil, or the ‘joy plant.’ Harvested for its milk-like sap, ...

CLARKSBURG, W.Va. (WBOY) — This weekend, the United Mine Workers of America (UMWA) stopped in Clarksburg, West Virginia, to recognize the life of Francis Dalton, also known as the oldest known miner ...