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.

Successive major droughts, each lasting longer than 85 years, were likely a key factor in the eventual fall of the Indus ...

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 ...

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 ...

Archaeologists have completed the first comprehensive technological mapping of an intricate underground tunnel system beneath the ancient Etruscan city of Veii, revealing a sophisticated network of ...

In my research focused on early farmers of Europe, I have often wondered about a curious pattern through time: Farmers lived in large dense villages, then dispersed for centuries, then later formed ...

According to National Geographic, the map depicts distances between gates in the wall surrounding the Mesopotamian city of Nippur, but for decades experts questioned its accuracy. The locations of ...

When discussing the ancient world and how it impacts us today, there’s perpetually a massive tunic-clad and public-bathing elephant in the room: the Roman Empire. According to a recent social media ...

INDIANA, USA — What a sight it must have been in ancient times to see a total solar or lunar eclipse. Over the centuries, astronomers were able to predict days of when eclipses would happen, and now ...