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

The culprit behind the mysterious disappearance of one of the most advanced urban civilizations at the time, contemporaries ...

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.

Archeologists beam lasers from the sky to unearth ancient settlements hiding in plain sight. Lidar uses laser pulses to penetrate dense vegetation, revealing human-built structures underneath. The ...

There's something about ancient civilizations that fascinates us even thousands of years later. Their architecture, ...

Amongst the most enduring mythical creatures, which were present in so many ancient cultures, are the dragons. Appearing frequently in folklore and tales from China in the east to Europe in the west, ...

A series of century-scale droughts may have quietly reshaped one of the world’s earliest urban civilizations. New climate ...

The discovery of the settlements over the years has led to a new understanding of the Asia Minor and Anatolia regions.

Throughout history, numerous ancient technologies have left researchers and historians pondering the true capabilities of early civilizations. Were they more advanced than we give them credit for? By ...

The chance rediscovery of the ancient Chinese Sanxingdui civilization is legendary in and of itself. In 1929, an unsuspecting ...

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 ...

Cyprus has been unanimously admitted as a full member of the Ancient Civilizations Forum, joining Greece, Armenia, Bolivia, China, Egypt, Iran, Iraq, Italy and Peru.Founded in 2017 at the initiative ...