The central Mexican city of Xochicalco was established around a.d. 670 atop a 400-foot-tall hill. At the city’s highest level ...

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

Calakmul remained relatively undisturbed until gum harvesters in Mexico led an American botanist to them in 1931. Here’s what ...

Mesopotamia, situated between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers, is recognized as the earliest cradle of civilization due to ...

Ca. 2300–2000 b.c. The head likely depicts a Mesopotamian ruler and is one of the earliest known life-size lost-wax metal sculptures to survive. It had been thought that the head was virtually solid, ...

On a dry patch of Peru’s central coast, archaeologists are decoding a chilling message carved into clay over four millennia ...

A new scientific study suggests that the sudden collapse of the ancient Indus River Valley civilization, known for its ...

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

The world’s first known lock-and-key system, dating back to 4000 BCE in Mesopotamia, shows how ancient people protected their ...

On the second day of the Pakistani cultural events within the "Global Harmony 2" initiative, thousands of visitors enjoyed a ...