The Indus Valley civilization, located in present-day Pakistan and India, went through four periods of intense drought, which ...

The culprit behind the mysterious disappearance of one of the most advanced urban civilizations at the time, contemporaries ...

A series of century-scale droughts may have quietly reshaped one of the world’s earliest urban civilizations. New climate ...

One of history's biggest questions is: "How does an entire civilization disappear?" One can comprehend how an object or even a city is lost, buried, or destroyed, but an entire group or nation of ...

On a low rise in southeastern Turkey, a ring of carved stone pillars has forced archaeologists to rethink how civilization ...

There's something about ancient civilizations that fascinates us even thousands of years later. Their architecture, ...

Archeologists beam lasers from the sky to unearth ancient settlements hiding in plain sight. Lidar uses laser pulses to penetrate dense vegetation, revealing human-built structures underneath. The ...

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.

Amongst the most enduring mythical creatures, which were present in so many ancient cultures, are the dragons. Appearing frequently in folklore and tales from China in the east to Europe in the west, ...

Moments of sociopolitical tumult have a way of generating all-encompassing explanatory histories. These chronicles either indulge a sense of decline or applaud our advances. The appetite for such ...