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.
Rather than being felled by a single disaster, the researchers argue it was this "repeated, long, and intensifying" cycle of ...
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 ...
manuscripts at the National Museum of Iraq and the nearby National Library were created over 9,000 years of human history -- art and ideas from some of the world’s earliest villages and cultures. But ...
New climate research suggests centuries-long river droughts weakened one of the world’s earliest urban societies — and offers ...
From the Minoan royal road to the Ridgeway, ancient roads still exist today showing how past civilizations built networks ...
Scientists once believed that a long-dried-up river in the Himalayas served as the main water source for the Indus Valley Civilization, also known as the Harappan Civilization, which existed from 5300 ...
Anthropologist Margaret Mead said the first sign of civilization in an ancient culture is a femur that had been broken and then healed. She theorized that in the animal kingdom, if you break your leg, ...