Here, we explore six notable civilizations that have collapsed, shedding light on some of the causes behind their demise and ...

Staggeringly diverse rock art motifs in galleries across what is today Serranía De La Lindosa, Colombia, record a history of ...

William Dalrymple has spent decades writing about history, but he’s discovered that an even bigger audience wants to hear him ...

That obelisk, now in St. Peter’s Square, witnessed centuries of history — from Rome’s bloody persecutions ... the old St.

Ancient cylinder seals in Mesopotamia shaped the development of proto-cuneiform writing in Uruk around 3000 BCE, linking ...

Homer's Ancient Greek Poem Iliad has inspired a small village in Turkey to install busts of the Trojan war heroes on their ...

Tugunbulak could have housed as many as 5,000 residents with the only source of food being pastured animals or what could be ...

A rare Triassic fossil unearthed in Brazil, Gondwanax paraisensis, could provide new insights into the origins of dinosaurs.

As a people we Indians are rather inept at presenting our real achievements to the rest of the world. So many among ... ridiculous considering that ancient India had many genuinely spectacular ...

This week, uncover the secrets of Pompeii through ancient DNA, meet an adventurous emperor penguin, seek signs of mysterious ...

Ancient DNA has revealed surprises about the identities of some people who perished in the ancient Roman town of Pompeii ...

From maps and pickaxes, it is now possible to discover ancient relics from a distance, as in the case of a recent find.