History is filled with powerful empires that seemed invincible until they weren't. Between roughly 1250 and 1150 BCE, major ...

In a stunning archaeological find, a team has uncovered an ancient megacity buried deep in the desert, predating known ...

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 ...

If you liked this story, share it with other people. The narrative of civilization’s rise and fall is often illustrated with grand achievements and epic downfalls, but one of the most understated ...

There were many similarities between ancient Greece and Egypt. The two civilizations were in close contact during the ...

The feeling will be familiar to many who have visited the great cities of history: I had come to Athens for the first time and made a pilgrimage to its democratic Assembly, Plato's Academy, and ...

A Study Gallery of India and the Ancient World, trains its lens to the duration between the Harappan civilisation — which began roughly 5000 years ago — and the Gupta Empire in the 6th century CE ...

When we look back at ancient history, we often default to picturing primitive societies with crude tools, simple living, and slow technological progress. But a deeper dive into archaeology and ...

Ancient Nubian civilizations practiced something that might shock modern sensibilities - they tattooed the faces of infants and toddlers as young as seven months old. A new study using advanced ...