The fall of the world’s earliest cities has long looked like a riddle of vanished peoples and abandoned streets. A growing ...

The Indus Valley civilization, located in present-day Pakistan and India, went through four periods of intense drought, which ...

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 ...

The culprit behind the mysterious disappearance of one of the most advanced urban civilizations at the time, contemporaries ...

The chance rediscovery of the ancient Chinese Sanxingdui civilization is legendary in and of itself. In 1929, an unsuspecting ...