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

Across deserts, jungles, and polar ice, new discoveries are quietly stretching the story of civilization further back in time ...

Harappa was one of the large cities created by the Indus Valley civilization. Smn121 via Wikimedia Commons under CC BY-SA 3.0 What happened to the Indus Valley civilization? The culture, also known as ...

A new study reveals how ships guided ancient civilizations through crisis, helping regions trade, defend, and endure the ...

These out-of-place artifacts, or OOPArts, are surprising for their place and time — but there's an explanation behind each ...

New research suggests the Indus Valley Civilization was reshaped by centuries of river drought, migration, and climate stress ...

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

Long before scientists discovered that other stars in the universe host their own planetary systems, humanity had ...

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 Maya Civilization, from Central America, was one of the most advanced ancient civilizations, known for its significant achievements in astronomy and mathematics. This includes accurate calendars ...

We’ve likely had at least one close encounter of the 3I kind before. Harvard scientist Avi Loeb claims that not only does 3I/ATLAS potentially have alien origins, but that this wouldn’t be the first ...

This 3,000-year-old artifact has turned the world of archaeological understanding on its head - or at least, that's what social media would have us believe. Housed in the British Museum's Northwest ...