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

A thirty-year scientific partnership between archaeologists and the Kuikuro people, in the Xingu Indigenous Territory in Mato ...

Hidden beneath a hill in Mexico lies the world’s largest pyramid by volume—the Great Pyramid of Cholula. Long thought to be a natural formation, new evidence reveals a complex built by unknown ...

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.

Long drought cycles reshaped settlement choices in the Indus region. These climate stresses likely contributed to its slow ...

Iranian restoration teams have launched a new conservation program at the UNESCO-designated Persepolis and the nearby Naqsh-e ...

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 ...

Researchers have uncovered extensive pre-Hispanic settlements hidden beneath the waters and vegetation of Bolivia's Great Tectonic Lakes. Using advanced LiDAR technology and collaborative fieldwork ...

The latest Metroid nails the mood and action, but its new additions often feel out of place.

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Qin-era engraved stone found on Qinghai-Xizang Plateau reshapes early China history, linking Kunlun myth and ancient frontier reach.

A new book argues that civilizations built on centralized wealth and power contain the seeds of their own destruction.