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

A new study reveals how ships guided ancient civilizations through crisis, helping regions trade, defend, and endure the ...

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

Saffron, also known as Kesar, is an ancient and valuable spice prized for its rich color, aroma, and medicinal properties.

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

As ancient civilizations enter the mass digital entertainment ecosystem, games are increasingly being requested to serve as new forms of cultural mediation.

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 ...

Cyprus has been unanimously admitted as a full member of the Ancient Civilizations Forum, joining Greece, Armenia, Bolivia, ...

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