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 ...

The mega structures of the ancient world are famously awe-inspiring. They showcase the ingenuity, ambition and ...

There were many similarities between ancient Greece and Egypt. The two civilizations were in close contact during the ...

“Mayan calendar specialists anticipated solar eclipses by correlating their occurrences with dates in their 260-day ...

The ruins of a prehistoric skyscraper: New research is revealing how Cornish tin appears to have boosted a long-lost Bronze Age Mediterranean civilization. This aerial photo shows that civilization's ...

History is filled with powerful empires that seemed invincible until they weren't. Between roughly 1250 and 1150 BCE, major ...

Around 8,000 years ago, many civilizations thrived on plains that are now submerged by the North and Baltic seas. Now, scientists from a variety of northern European research institutions are ...

Ancient Nubian civilizations practiced something that might shock modern sensibilities - they tattooed the faces of infants and toddlers as young as seven months old. A new study using advanced ...

A fish under a roof. A stick figure without a head. A series of lines that look like a garden rake. These symbols are part of an entirely undeciphered script from a sophisticated ancient civilization ...