This episode explores the eerie question: how does an entire civilization just disappear? From thriving cities to complex ...

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

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 ...

Though our political, socio-economic world operates according to the dictates of rapacity, many continue to deny the existence of rape culture; a denial ...

The wealthiest grave containing the oldest golden artifacts ever found from the 5th millennium BC was discovered in the 1970s ...

The celebration of the Winter Solstice is an ancient practice that is almost untraceable. While we know civilizations like ...

In some of the ancient civilizations each year was designated with a label rather than a number. For example, there was a Year of the Locust, a Year of the Flood, or a Year of Golden Harvest.

Western civilization arose in Greece in the 8th century BC, when some 1,500 city-states emerged from a murky, illiterate 400-year-old Dark Age.

As a professor of Chinese studies at the University of Tehran, specializing in China-Iran relations, my fascination with the ...

Western civilization arose in the 8th century B.C. Greece. Some 1,500 city-states emerged from a murky, illiterate ...

No one knows the exact dates when various ancient civilizations figured out the importance of seed corn. The idea that you do ...

At the book event, Chen Ye, deputy editor-in-chief of Yilin Press, said that the success of the book, which has sold 600,000 ...