Successive major droughts, each lasting longer than 85 years, were likely a key factor in the eventual fall of the Indus ...

"The discovery opens up completely new interpretations and understandings." Researchers stunned by remnants of ancient ...

Climate data offers clues to what might have happened to people of the Indus River Valley and how that might relate to our own warming world.

While Mother Nature is undoubtedly a master artist, humanity has also sculpted its own breathtaking masterpieces across the ...

According to National Geographic, the map depicts distances between gates in the wall surrounding the Mesopotamian city of Nippur, but for decades experts questioned its accuracy. The locations of ...

Archaeologists have completed the first comprehensive technological mapping of an intricate underground tunnel system beneath the ancient Etruscan city of Veii, revealing a sophisticated network of ...

Here are 15 supposedly “basic” trivia questions most adults can’t actually answer. Let’s see how many you get right. Many ...

The clever, adaptable urban "trash panda" may be evolving a shorter snout — a key physical trait of pets and other ...

International team reconstructed region’s ancient climate using paleoclimate evidence from caves, lakes and climate models - ...

Shimao ruins, an important prehistoric site located in Northwest China's Shaanxi Province Photo: Courtesy of National ...

Huge carved obelisks and stelas in northern Ethiopia were erected by the kings of the Aksum Empire, who ruled the Horn of Africa and Red Sea region for much of the first millennium A.D. The toppled ...

From the Minoan royal road to the Ridgeway, ancient roads still exist today showing how past civilizations built networks ...