Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. When we look back at ancient history, we often default to picturing primitive societies with crude tools, simple living, and slow ...

Archaeologists have long known that complex societies can rise, flourish and then disappear so completely that only scattered ruins hint at what was lost. Now a new wave of research is sharpening the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. One of history's biggest questions is: "How does an entire civilization disappear?" One can comprehend how an object or even a ...

Flooding in the middle Yangtze river valley 4000 years ago, recorded by stalagmite calcium isotopes, coincides with the decline of the post-Shijiahe culture, highlighting that water-excess can be as ...

“Great civilizations are not murdered. Instead, they take their own lives.” The great historian Arnold Toynbee concluded this in his 12-volume magnum opus A Study of History. It was an exploration of ...

The treasure hunt begins -- The secrets of the Piri Re'is map -- The Piri Re'is map in detail -- The Antarctic maps of Oronteus Finaeus, Hadji Ahmed, and Mercator -- Ancient maps of the North -- The ...