The Indus Valley civilization, located in present-day Pakistan and India, went through four periods of intense drought, which ...

Archaeologists in Hungary have uncovered a 1,300-year-old warrior’s tomb containing one of only about 80 known Avar sabers, a ...

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.

The chance rediscovery of the ancient Chinese Sanxingdui civilization is legendary in and of itself. In 1929, an unsuspecting peasant in Sichuan province stumbled upon a cache of jade relics while ...

Recent archaeological discoveries have unveiled ruins believed to be part of a civilization dating back 20,000 years, challenging our understanding of human history. These findings compel researchers ...

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 ...

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 ...

Archaeologists have discovered the ruins of a 2,000-year-old temple off the coast of the city of Pozzuoli, Italy, which has remained untouched for centuries. There is strong evidence to suggest that ...

A 4,000-year-old burial in Sudan’s Bayuda Desert reveals rare Kerma-era rituals, grave goods, and clues to a forgotten Nile ...

A field worker in Mexico found a carving from a 2,000-year-old civilization, a stone knife and two other artifacts, city officials said. Photo from the Coscomatepec City Council While working in a ...

After eight years of research, experts have unearthed 18 structures so far, including residential homes and ceremonial temples. Experts believe the city—since named Peñico—was once a thriving urban ...