A long-standing mystery surrounding the Mayan civilization's collapse has been solved. Scientists now believe a ...

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

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

Ever wonder what secrets lie beneath the stones of ancient ruins? There’s something almost magical about standing where ...

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

Successive major droughts, each lasting longer than 85 years, were likely a key factor in the eventual fall of the Indus Valley Civilization, according to a paper published in Communications Earth & ...

A series of major archaeological discoveries at the Wuwangdun tomb in Huainan, East China's Anhui Province, is shedding new ...

Officials have unveiled the tomb of an ancient warrior, buried over 1,300 years ago by a long-forgotten people. King Saint Stephen Museum, located in Székesfehérvár, Hungary, announced the discovery ...

Excavations carried out across Türkiye in 2025 produced an exceptional range of archaeological finds, from humanity’s ...

Across the globe, a race is under way to crack some of the last mysterious forms of writing that have never been translated.

This legacy is preserved in the Qiuci Grottoes murals, where dance scenes appear alongside Buddhist stories. However, extensive looting by foreign expeditions in the late 19th and early 20th centuries ...

From Nordic lullabies to Grimm’s fairytales, the wolf has always haunted the edges of human history. Even today, wolves would ...