Ancient Underwater Minoan City Discovered Off Crete's Coast Sheds New Light on Early Civilization - A comprehensive travel ...

The fall of the world’s earliest cities has long looked like a riddle of vanished peoples and abandoned streets. A growing ...

Archeologists in Spain have recently uncovered an ancient rock slab with an alphabet inscribed that predates the Rosetta Stone by roughly 400 years. The discovery in southwest Spain is believed to be ...

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

The Ancient Egyptian Old Kingdom (2686–2125 B.C.) produced many lasting artefacts—but little DNA has survived. Teeth from an elderly man who lived around the time that the earliest pyramids were built ...

Long before the Inka (commonly known as Inca in English) rose to power, a mysterious civilization bloomed on the edge of Lake Titicaca. Known as Tiwanaku, it began as a humble farming village in the ...

Read the Portuguese version here. In the badlands of the southwestern Amazon, Antonia Barbosa is fighting to protect ancient archaeological finds from Brazil’s unstoppable $523 billion agribusiness ...

Long drought cycles reshaped settlement choices in the Indus region. These climate stresses likely contributed to its slow collapse. A series of severe droughts, each extending for more than 85 years, ...

In the hills of southeastern Turkey lies a site so ancient, it's turning our understanding of civilization on its head and fueling conspiracy theories. KUOW is Seattle’s NPR news station. We are an ...

Roman, Egyptian, and Chinese civilizations had many different ingenious inventions. Chocolate was a big aphrodisiac for Mesoamerican civilizations and used for energy. The first earthquake detector is ...