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

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.

Rather than being felled by a single disaster, the researchers argue it was this "repeated, long, and intensifying" cycle of ...

From the Minoan royal road to the Ridgeway, ancient roads still exist today showing how past civilizations built networks ...

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 ...

New climate research suggests centuries-long river droughts weakened one of the world’s earliest urban societies — and offers ...