The existential question of which countries are the oldest has long intrigued historians, and for good reason. However, defining what makes a country "old" is challenging, as it depends on historical ...

Culture Minister Fadli Zon highlights that 67,800-year-old rock paintings in Sulawesi prove Indonesia is among the oldest ...

The oldest river predates the dinosaurs. But how do we know this?

The rock art in the Metanduno Cave in Muna Regency is 67,800 years old, making it older than the Maros cave rock art.

Are these some of the earliest weapons in human history? History Hit’s Tristan Hughes speaks to Dr Annemieke Milks, ...

As one of the oldest components of human engineering, gears have driven civilization for ...

A Greenland shark swimming through the North Atlantic today may have been alive before the modern world existed. Researchers ...

While excavating clay cylinders in Syria, archaeologists discovered a rare find: an early writing system. The script has given scholars the new challenge of reinvestigating the timeline of alphabetic ...

From the oracle bone scripts of ancient China to the hieroglyphs of Egypt and the philosophical traditions of ancient Greece, ...

The Khoikhoi survived without empires, armies, or monuments. Their strength was adaptability, not expansion. Mobility allowed them to avoid collapse that destroyed settled societies. Identity was ...

Two tombs and evidence of human activity dating back to the late bronze age, 1400 BC, were discovered during excavations ...

While gold and silver have long been symbols of wealth and power, in ancient China, these precious metals carried a much ...