History is filled with powerful empires that seemed invincible until they weren't. Between roughly 1250 and 1150 BCE, major ...
The Indus Valley civilization, located in present-day Pakistan and India, went through four periods of intense drought, which ...
A new study reveals how ships guided ancient civilizations through crisis, helping regions trade, defend, and endure the ...
The celebration of the Winter Solstice is an ancient practice that is almost untraceable. While we know civilizations like ...
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 ...
Ancient Nubians who lived between the 7th and 9th centuries tattooed the cheeks and foreheads of their infants and toddlers.
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 ...