A new study reveals how ships guided ancient civilizations through crisis, helping regions trade, defend, and endure the ...

Cave stalagmite in Himalayas offers most detailed explanation for what led to decline of ancient Indus civilization, study says. Photo from Jed Owen via Unsplash Four thousand years ago, the sprawling ...

After six years of investigation, archaeologists have discovered a large-scale ancient city cluster consisting of 573 stone city sites in Yulin, Northwest China's Shaanxi province. This indicates that ...

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 ...

In 2024, we use many everyday objects so often that we barely notice them. While we have access to incredible technology like ...

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, ...

At the Sanxingdui Museum in Sichuan province, bronze artifacts mark the height of a civilization that flourished more than three millennia ago. As ancient civilizations enter the mass digital ...