Chinese historians have long assumed that under China’s earliest imperial rulers, the Qin (221–206 B.C.) and Han (206 B.C.–A.D. 220) Dynasties, farmers turned over a fixed amount of their crops to the ...

During the second millennium B.C., the Hittite kings relied on their control of staple crops to maintain their expanding empire in central Anatolia, where rainfall was unpredictable. At ...

From the rediscovery of the “Lost Golden City” in Egypt to North America’s oldest footprints, 2021 reshaped our understanding of human history. This video revisits Kayleigh’s personal top five finds, ...

We spoke to four archaeologists of different specialties, who told us what they thought were some of the most important developments in their... Global lockdowns and political strife made it a tough ...