The Phoenicians developed their ancient civilization with profits from the lucrative maritime trade of the Mediterranean.

Archaeologists agree that writing emerged in Sumeria, present-day Iraq, between 3,000 and 4,000 BC. The Ancient Greeks left a ...

Five objects from the British Museum's collection tell the story of the emergence of the earliest cities in the river valleys of North Africa and Asia ...

It represents the earliest example in Britain of a ritual burial. The Mesolithic or Middle Stone Age (10000-4000 BC) Continuous settlement of Wales by human beings began with the end of the latest ...