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 ...

Ancient written languages emerged as a revolutionary development in human history, allowing civilizations to record important ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

EAM S Jaishankar said India is a rare ancient civilisation that became a modern nation. Speaking at IIT Madras, he ...

A century ago, UChicago scholars argued a controversial idea: Western civilization had its roots in the ancient Middle East—not in Greece or Rome. Today, scholars at the OI and across the University ...

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 ...

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 ...