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

There are parts of the excavation site that date back to the Sasanian Empire of the 3 rd through 7 th centuries, but a majority of the best-preserved parts of the site are remnants of the Old ...

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.

In the half-dark of a third-floor office, Danielle Levy lifted a clay tablet out of its box. Carefully examining it with ...

Eswatini in southern Africa is home to the world’s oldest ochre mine. A new study dates that mine to a full 48,000 years ago. Ochre is a clay-based pigment that was incredibly popular at that time, ...

Nabataeans established a mysterious, ancient kingdom and had a reputation for great accomplishments with links to Greece and ...

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

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 ...

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 ...