Archaeologists in Hungary have uncovered a 1,300-year-old warrior’s tomb containing one of only about 80 known Avar sabers, a ...

Archaeologists have long suspected that climate can make or break a civilization, but the emerging picture of past ...

The Fertile Crescent, a boomerang-shaped region spanning modern-day Middle Eastern countries, is considered the cradle of ...

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.

A new study shows how a long river drought triggered a metamorphosis of Harappan civilization, reshaping settlements as ...

A 4,000-year-old burial in Sudan’s Bayuda Desert reveals rare Kerma-era rituals, grave goods, and clues to a forgotten Nile ...

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 ...

According to National Geographic, the map depicts distances between gates in the wall surrounding the Mesopotamian city of Nippur, but for decades experts questioned its accuracy. The locations of ...

In the quest to understand why agriculture started in a particular place and time, understanding the climate is crucial.